Timeline for Should we use the <kbd> tag or not?
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| Oct 8, 2014 at 2:19 | comment | added | Drew | Using such a mix (key sequences as raised blocks; code as simply shaded) is not only inconvenient. It is also ugly, IMO. There is no good reason to adopt it, IMO. Keep it simple and convenient, and coherent with Emacs notation. | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 7:39 | comment | added | phils | Granted, "It's a pain to type", but that's not a big deal, and easily dealt with if you compose your answers in Emacs. "Its appearance might not be consistent throughout browsers" is a non-argument -- the appearance of anything on the web may not be consistent between browsers. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 21:46 | comment | added | Drew |
@Malabarba: No, I meant only that Info doc and doc strings enclose key sequences and symbol names (functions, variables, faces,...) in ` and '. And here we would do similarly, but with ` replacing ' at the end.
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| Sep 26, 2014 at 6:26 | comment | added | Malabarba | @Drew what do you mean by that? Are you talking about the C- and M- conventions? I'm not arguing about that. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 4:06 | comment | added | Drew | It is much better to mirror the Emacs convention, which applies equally to keys, symbols, etc. Info and doc strings should point the way. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 16:23 | history | edited | Malabarba | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2014 at 14:42 | comment | added | Malabarba | Both good points. Styling the appearance might be possible before the site goes live, that would also address any inconsistencies. At the moment, it's an issue. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 14:38 | comment | added | dcorking | I also find it harder to read. It would help if the kbd element was restyled with a larger, fixed width font. That way it would more closely resemble the appearance in the info reader, so giving the benefit of familiarity. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 14:01 | comment | added | T. Verron | Is it platform-dependent? Here (chrome on linux), the text is reasonably sized, but the text in the kbd blocks is too small to be deciphered "in a breeze". | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 10:17 | history | edited | Malabarba | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2014 at 10:09 | history | answered | Malabarba | CC BY-SA 3.0 |