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The reason for rejection, for better or worse, is that this is a functional element, like a button, rather than part of running text.
by josh_fyi 6y ago
The reason for rejection, for better or worse, is that this is a functional element, like a button, rather than part of running text.
- Sephr 6y agoThat didn't stop the Unicode Consortium from including a left-pointing magnifying glass in the standard. I use this on my blog for the search button.
- Symbiote 6y agoI don't think that's inconsistent. I've seen a right-pointing magnifying glass printed in a book, and a left-pointing one would be equivalent for Arabic or Hebrew. I'd expect to see it in a school science book, for example.
- baddox 6y agoSearch Google Books for “external link icon” and you will find several web design books that describe and depict the icon.
- gray_-_wolf 6y agoAnd as others have already mentioned, I've seen the external link printed in several manuals for various products I've bought.
- jakeogh 6y agoAnd that's the real result of this, people will just settle on a collective commandeering of the closest symbol, making the decision irrelevant and retrospectively worse than pointless. Annoy everyone enough, and we can redefine the nunicode codepoints as rationals and hand the denominator to another group.
- bluescrn 6y agoLike the play/pause symbols then, which are already in there? And since when was a smiling poop an ‘element of plain text’
- VMG 6y agonot that I agree with the final decision, but I can imagine "Play"/"Pause" to show up in a device manual and Smiling Poop as part of a chat message. Neither applies to the "external link" symbol.
- toxik 6y agoWhy couldn’t the external link icon appear in technical documentation as it so often does?
- jolmg 6y agoCan you imagine it in paper documents or anywhere that is not hypertext?
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- martyvis 6y agoYes, I've seen it used as a way to steer the reader to open their browser for further information with URL written in plain text. Like hyper footnote
- sarakayakomzin 6y agoNotice how you already infer all of this without the context of an external link icon?
- baddox 6y agoYes, I would expect to see it in books about web design, for instance.