Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key

heptapod writes "Slashdot reported earlier about Google's Chrome notebook and keen-eyed readers would have noticed the lack of a caps lock key. 'According to Google, this will improve the quality of the comments, because people will not be able to write all in capital letters. I'm not a fan of the caps lock key myself. I never use it, so it can go to hell, for all I'm concerned. But taking away choice from people is not good, especially when this is not going to improve the quality of comments.'"

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I'm a bit scared

[suso]

As much as I hate the caps lock key (reassigned mine to be an extra Esc), I just submitted a bug on Chrome that it doesn't have a command line --geometry option, which I consider a pseudo standard thing for X apps. I can't help but see that Google is going from the mostly standards compliant company they once were to becoming a Microsoft as far as following standards goes. I'm sure there are other examples people will bring up and maybe a comment along the lines of "They were never standards compliant".

Agreed

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a database programmer, and I use caps lock on a regular basis. It's off by default, of course, but if I had to type stuff like this all day without caps lock I'd go mad:

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW part_glass_part2 AS
        SELECT part_key, sum(line_sqft) AS sum_sqft, sum(line_lbs) AS sum_lbs
        FROM part_glass_part1
        GROUP BY 1;

Re:Does anyone actually use it legitimately?

[germansausage]

CAD guy here. We have lots of drawings where the convention is to put all text in caps. I use capslock all the time.

Re:Use of Caps Lock key

[toQDuj]

On top of that, in Japan, you can use the caps lock key to switch to a different kind of characterset. Quite useful, really...

B.