Mastodawn

Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.

Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!

https://aresluna.org/fn

I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either

The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key

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Chancerubbage

@mwichary

Back when Mac OS used control, alt, and shift in addition to ‘Apple’ as modifier key combos, the drop down menu pathway to the same actions would refer to them only by glyphs. I was lucky I could remember what the symbol for shift was.

Of course they are trying to avoid having to localize keyboards for international markets, but I don’t care for learning hieroglyphics or thinking in emoji.