Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design
by QuantumNomad_ on Monday April 13, 2026 @02:14AM
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Some older Apple keyboards had their backspace button labelled “delete” which to me made it sound like that was the “del” button and not the backspace button.
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Re:Bring Back Idiomatic Design
by Findecanor on Monday April 13, 2026 @05:25AM
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That was the convention on many older computing platforms.
A "Backspace" key on a typewriter did not actually delete: It merely moved the typing position back one space.