@rhouge :
The keyboard was a first experiment by gustavo, to measure how well could we do with a non-full screen keyboard but keeping it usable with fingers. We like the results a lot, and already have a track to improve it even more with some of the apple's trick (autocompletion using some dictionaries / simple error connection with the same dictionary, trying to build the visual paths to fix the typos)

What we know is that the keyboard from maemo now has a nice api that we can actually use, so we can try to provide a alternative keyboard also outside of Canola, for those users who like the keyboard but not the canola itself or simply don't need it.

The good thing is that most of it is a edje (ui) script. So it took just a couple of more days because gustavo was bug fixing the platform first. This shows a lot of potential for a more intelligent keyboard, that is what we need for removing the canola configuration from the web based thing =)

BR

Marcelo