HHKB-type backspace position for ISO enter? :)

[Sigmoid]

Hey!

I personally prefer the ISO layout to ANSI, and since in that case Enter / Return takes up the wide "backslash" key that HHKB-like layouts use for Delete / Backspace...
So I have an idea for amalgamating the two, and thought to ask you guys what you think of it.



See, backspace on the home row! Do you think it would be a nice solution?

[Want]

Wow, cool. If I still had an programmable ISO board that wasn't getting ready for sale, I'd try this out asap.
This along with an alternate layout (such as dvorak) would be pretty baller.

[davkol]

I'm not a fan of these key clusters, because of accidental key presses. Backspace is a destructive function.
Moreover, key placement *inside* the key section makes it more difficult to use while editing with the nav cluster (unless you're using a 60% keyboard with no nav cluster).

The whole debate would be over, if more vendors adopted split spacebars. That actually leads me to another idea: the ISO/IEC 9995 standard permits backspace on the bottom row. It could be a palm key in the corner…