ABkey replaces QWERTY keyboard

I find that these keyboards all make a nice target for the casual writer, blogger, email user... but are not created with a coder in mind. It seems to most of these keyboard makers that the curly brace is extremely unimportant (based on their location) and that they should be harder to reach. Well, I use curly braces and semi-colons a lot. I've got a split keyboard from Kinesis that allows each side of the keyboard to be mounted to each arm of the chair. I'll stick with this ASCII model for now until something VERY ergonomic AND coder friendly comes along. http://kinesis-ergo.com/evol_chair.htm

I use a Dvorak layout. I find it much more comfortable and natural than qwerty. The alphabetic layout makes sense on a Speak-n-Spell, but if you are going to move the keys around, might as well stick with Dvorak, which has some actual reason and testing to back it up. You can also just switch keymaps rather than carting your board around. If you want the cadillac of ergo keyboards, I suggest the Kinesis-- http://kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm

Great. Now there's a top-endian and bottom-endian format for keyboards. http://www.abckeyboard.com/ has the top-endian version. I hope that keyboard doesn't expect you to use your wrists in the action as well, since that would promote unhealthy movement. They didn't bother looking at an Apple keyboard and check to see what people enjoy typing on in the first place. Those keys look like something died in the 70's and came back from the dead.

Weren't Dvorak keyboards invented for just the same purpose? To have most often typed keys in the home row? Why make things alphabetical?