Graffiti 2

[2] After a legal fight lasting a number of years, and despite the dismissal of the case by a federal judge, Xerox won a reversal late in 2001 in the U.S. Court of Appeals.

[3] The change, on the other hand, alienated many long-time Palm users who were already happy with the previous version of Graffiti which they claimed was much easier to use (though perhaps not to learn).

[4] A prominent issue cited by detractors is the number of stylus strokes required to draw a character.

The original Graffiti recognition software required only a single stylus stroke for each alphanumeric character.

This was perceived as extra work because the default settings for "i" and "t", the fifth and second most frequently-used letters in English, required two strokes.