Snow Leopard Chinese Input System Demo & Request for ideas to improve it

I had been looking for a detailed Snow Leopard Chinese Input System demo online for sometime and failed. What I found were just short video clips of people trying to use the system for a few words here and there, nothing detailed. So I've taken the initiative to create such a video and hope people interested learning more about the Chinese Input System may find it useful.
http://kempton.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/snow-leopard-chinese-input-system-demo/
I like the system and like to see users of the system sending in suggestions to Apple for them to improve it and make the system even better.
Here are some comment/ideas of mine,
1) I love the predictive word association, it has saved me time in entering many words.
2) Add an "undo" to the track pad input.
Sometimes I see the right word predicted but my hand was too fast and I added a dot or stroke that takes out the word I want.
3) My pen stroke order sometimes ***** and this mess up the recognition system badly.
I wonder will it be difficult to implement a display tool that
given a passage of "Chinese text" as input
have the system "display" the "correct" pen strokes order of how the words are expected in the system. The stupidly simple word “生” should not take 20-30 seconds for someone to fight with the system to get the correct recognition.
Here is how I captured some of my thoughts earlier this month in Chinese typing the article in Snow Leopard,
自從九月 [...],我便開始用Apple Snow Leopard新的中文輸入系統。當時我寫
“打本文某一㘹字時慢到我想死 (一笑)!希望將來我的中文輸入會快一點吧!”
我現在有點經驗使用這中文輸入系統,慢慢開始熟練,寫文章都叫做幾快。以下是我的一些觀察,
1) 輸入系統的”聯想”(predictive word association)有時可以幫我寫小好幾個字。
2) 輸入系統非常依靠正確的筆劃順序。不幸我寫得不太好,所以有時候我要同一字寫多次才成。
3) 冇undo。有時我寫得太快,加多一箑一點,字便變了。冇undo,很不方便。

Make sure you also send your ideas for improvements to Apple via this link:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
(In these forums you are only reaching other users like yourself)

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