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Phatzer

Phatzer

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Hi,

I'm being fussy here so don't read on of you don't want to.

Something seems different with the on-screen keyboard following 3.0, and I was just wondering if anybody else had noticed that the number on the number 1 key is a little more to the left than the other numbers?

Yeah, anyway, that's all!
 
Phatzer said:
Hi,

I'm being fussy here so don't read on of you don't want to.

Something seems different with the on-screen keyboard following 3.0, and I was just wondering if anybody else had noticed that the number on the number 1 key is a little more to the left than the other numbers?

Yeah, anyway, that's all!
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LOL why did you say that!!!! its off

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WAIT... LOOK AT IT CLOSLY.. its just an optical illusion cause there are no letters below it
 
Maclver said:
LOL why did you say that!!!! its off

photo-1-3.jpg


WAIT... LOOK AT IT CLOSLY.. its just an optical illusion cause there are no letters below it
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Hmm, it does look off. But like you said it could be an optical illusion also because the 4 has a bit more "weight" to the left, so your eye is drawn in that direction when you go down. Who knows... :rolleyes:
 
Nope, it's fine. Just without letters on the bottom, it looks off.
 

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A: Were talking about the keyboard numbers. Stop posting pictures of the phone dial pad.

B: Yes, it looks to me that the number is not perfectly in the center of the button. Not that the button itself is off, but the number on the button.

C: Who cares? Does it really bother you? I wouldn't have even noticed if you didn't make me look.
 
It's offset one pixel to the left. It has 12 pixels to the right of the 1, and 11 pixels to the left. The 1 is three pixels wide, so it could have been centered correctly but someone overlooked it.

Not a big deal, you have to be pretty anal to notice, but I was able to verify in Photoshop that your eyes are not deceiving you. :apple:

This is what it would look like if it were centered perfectly:
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You can almost (but not quite) get away with offsetting it one pixel to the right because even fully centered the shape of the digit makes it optically look like it's left of where it is. I've played this game many times in my own applications, I'm very anal myself about making sure my buttons look perfectly symmetrical and have centered text.
 
Agreed. The problem with the keyboard is that they centered the one on its vertical member, when the center of a character should be centered based on the entire character, and compensated for how much of the character is on each side.
 

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God I love mac users. You would NEVER get this with PC users :p

I'm serious. We go above and beyond :)
 
Switz213 said:
God I love mac users. You would NEVER get this with PC users :p

I'm serious. We go above and beyond :)
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Indeed :)

We need an immediate iPhone update to fix this problem please! :)

Oh, and releasing some REAL PUSH APP UPDATES would be nice!
 
Phatzer said:
Apple are losing their design touch! Sloppy work like this shouldn't even appear in Alpha releases by Apple, let alone finals!
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Apple should hire some macrumor members to check the UI before they update the os.
 
Phatzer said:
Apple are losing their design touch! Sloppy work like this shouldn't even appear in Alpha releases by Apple, let alone finals!
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LOL!!! you guys crack me up.. i would have never of thought to look so closely at the buttons.. LOL :)
 
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