Talk:Graffiti (Palm OS)

Should this page also show the differences
Should this page also show the differences between Jot, the Sony version, and the collapsable areas?

I've renamed this page Graffiti (Palm OS) rather than Graffiti (PalmOS) for consistency with the article on Palm OS. --LostLeviathan 22:35, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Graffiti was originally written by Palm, Inc. as the recognition system ...
I was looking for information as to when this happened. As I recall it was after the Zoomer's development, but before U.S. Robotics bought out Palm and the introduction of the original Pilot.

Lawsuit
This info needs to be updated. ref

Graffiti also runs on...
"Graffiti also runs on the Windows Mobile platform, where it is called 'Block Recognizer,' and on the Symbian UIQ platform as the default recognizer and was available for Casio's Zoomer PDA."

Is it correct to say that Graffiti also runs on Window Mobile or Symbian UIQ, when Graffiti is a registered trademark of PalmSource (current a fully owned subsidiary of Access) and (to the best of my knowledge) neither Microsoft nor Symbian have licensed this technology from PalmSource? Now I do recall Graffiti being made available for the Zoomer and the Newton. Therefore should it not instead be:

"Graffiti was also available for Casio's Zoomer PDA. A virtually identical character recognition system also runs on the Windows Mobile platform called 'Block Recognizer' and on the Symbian UIQ platform as the default recognizer."

Remove reference to perlin/quikwrite from introduction
The introduction of the article contains a link to Michael Perlin and quikwrite. This link may fit into some later section on the article, but it should not be present in the introduction of the article. user:nielsle

Graffiti Pro for Android
The problem with high resolution devices has been fixed in v1.04. I don't know how to edit the main article to present that there was problem... 84.1.158.2 (talk) 07:31, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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Are there any extant descendants of Graffiti that run on contemporary OS?
I tried a few searches for any 'variants' of Graffiti that might still exist, and all I could find was the already-mentioned Graffiti 2 Pro for Android, published by Access, the Japanese company that acquired the rights to Graffiti. The patent having long expired, I wonder if there aren't any other Graffiti 'clones' out there?... if so, it would be nice to list them here as well.

It's noteworthy to remember that (as this article so well mentions!), at some point in time, Graffiti was universally available on every mobile device except iOS/iPadOS, although Apple did license it for the Newton (which was not enough to 'save' that product, though) — so it was not deemed to be a product for a 'niche' market, but rather a mainstream product... which has now been mostly abandoned.

It would also be interesting to cite a few papers of the early 2000s comparing the ease and speed of writing using Graffiti compared to other input techniques. Sure, it was about half as fast as typing on a normal-sized keyboard, but, for me, that placed it orders of magnitude above all other possibilities (on-screen keyboards, calligraphy recognition, even voice recognition...). I'm curious if my experience is just parochial or universal, but couldn't find any reference to such a study (Palm possibly commissioned a few, back then), except for the Xerox patents filed for their 'Unistroke' technology...

— Gwyneth Llewelyn (talk) 17:54, 1 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I just found StrokeInput as an app for iPad and iPhone and added the information in the article (in the English and in the German Wikipedia). BurkArrenberg (talk) 16:45, 19 August 2023 (UTC)