A widely used Keyman Desktop phonetic keyboard for Amharic (developed by Geez Frontier Foundation) was also compiled and made available for use with KeymanWeb. When used with web browsers on desktop computers, the behaviour of the keyboard was identical to use with Keyman Desktop, but use of the same Amharic Read more…
Update 4 July 2014: KeymanWeb Amharic Mini 2.0 is now online and is much faster to use! Read more… KeymanWeb Amharic Mini is a new website that makes it possible for you to type in Amharic on your Nokia mobile phone, and post your message in Amharic to Facebook. Read more…
Since the release of the KeymanWeb 2.0 beta, we haven't been sitting around. We have in fact released 7 updates to the beta in the last month! Today, we consolidated a lot of that effort into build 335, and I'm happy to be able to report on some of the Read more…
When we started planning version 2.0 of KeymanWeb, we had a couple of major objectives. First, we wanted to clean up a big chunk of code that had grown beyond its original design and was getting very difficult to maintain and extend. And second, we knew that touch devices – Read more…
For the last few months, my colleagues and I have been working on KeymanWeb 2.0. This new release of KeymanWeb is a rebuild from the ground up of KeymanWeb 1.0, building to the latest web standards and adding support for tablets and mobile devices! Together with KeymanWeb itself, we've built Read more…
I'm excited to announce that I (Marc Durdin) will be presenting at the Internationalization and Unicode Conference 36 in October, on the topic "From Typewriter to Touch: Multi Platform Keyboards — Challenges and Illustrations". I will be walking through a number of the complexities and challenges that may not be Read more…
For those of you with a web programming bent, the following may be of interest. We now have 2 APIs available for accessing the Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb keyboard catalogues. Both APIs are RESTful and return UTF-8 JSON format data only in their initial incarnation. Update 18 Dec 2019: These Read more…
We've added an official Dzongkha layout for Keyman Desktop and for KeymanWeb and we think you should be excited. Language, Script + Keyboard Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan, is spoken by over 170,000 people worldwide. The language is written using the Tibetan script, which was developed from Devanagari in Read more…
This June we published a keyboard for the N'Ko script, a writing system designed in the 1940s to meet the needs of African languages. There are a number of exciting ways you can use the new N'Ko keyboard: Download to type in all your Windows applications Type online in KeymanWeb Read more…
We've just released an update to KeymanWeb 1.0 that includes fixes for a number of issues. This version is already live on www.keymanweb.com and KeymanWeb subscriptions. Internet Explorer 9 broke the On Screen Keyboard — when clicking on keys in the On Screen Keyboard, it would sometimes clear the whole Read more…