Editing Graffiti (Palm OS) (section)

==History==
Graffiti was developed by [[Jeff Hawkins]], who had previously created "PalmPrint" (the character recognition system used by the Casio Zoomer<ref>{{cite news | title=Zoomer XL-7000 | last=Tebbutt | first=David | journal=Personal Computer World |date=October 1993 }}</ref>) to recognize natural handwriting.<ref name="piloting-palm">{{Cite book
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</ref> By using a simpler alphabet, computers could easily recognize handwriting. Hawkins believed that people would take the time to learn Graffiti just as people learn to [[touch typing|touch-type]]. Hawkins recalled his insight: "And then it came to me in a flash. Touch-typing is a skill you ''learn''."<ref name="piloting-palm" />

The program was first released in 1994 for the [[Casio Zoomer]] PDA,<ref>{{cite mailing list |url=https://www.grot.com/zoomer/zoomer-list/zoomer-list-3Q1994/0048.html |title=Graffiti Arrives! -- Press Release enclosed|date=19 September 1994 |access-date=18 October 2024 |mailing-list=zoomer-list |last=Miller |first=Jack |author-link=}}</ref> while the first device to have the program preinstalled were the [[Pilot 1000]] and [[Pilot 5000|5000]] PDAs, both of which were released in 1996.<ref>{{cite book |title=Palm Pilot Handbook |publisher=3Com Corp. |url=http://www.palm.com/us/support/handbooks/palmpilothb.pdf |access-date=18 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060708153733/http://www.palm.com/us/support/handbooks/palmpilothb.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2006}}</ref>

Hawkins also envisioned a single area for writing letters on top of each other.<ref name="piloting-palm" />

Hawkins called this system "PowerPalmPrint" or P3. Other engineers at Palm revised and expanded the alphabet that Hawkins had created. Joe Sipher and Ron Marianetti created more characters and punctuation, and also designed a prototype of Graffiti that ran on a PC with a [[Graphics tablet|tablet peripheral]].<ref name="piloting-palm" />

Graffiti 2, whose gestures resembled natural handwriting more, was released in 2003 as a result of the lost lawsuit from Xerox.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hardy |first1=Ed |title=Inside Graffiti 2 |url=http://www.brighthand.com/article/Inside_Graffiti_2/ |access-date=18 October 2024 |publisher=Brighthand |date=January 29, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825135452/http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=11846 |archive-date=25 August 2006}}</ref>