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Like the play/pause symbols then, which are already in there? And since when was a smiling poop an ‘element of plain text’
by bluescrn 7y ago
Like the play/pause symbols then, which are already in there?
And since when was a smiling poop an ‘element of plain text’
- VMG 7y 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 7y agoWhy couldn’t the external link icon appear in technical documentation as it so often does?
- jolmg 7y agoCan you imagine it in paper documents or anywhere that is not hypertext?
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- martyvis 7y 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 7y agoNotice how you already infer all of this without the context of an external link icon?
- baddox 7y agoYes, I would expect to see it in books about web design, for instance.
- gowld 7y agoWhat's paper?
- baddox 7y agoI can imagine it showing up in an instructional book or article about how to indicate to your web site visitors that a hyperlink is to an external site, or perhaps in a comment about the Unicode standard body rejecting it. Neither of those are any more contrived than play/pause buttons being in an instructional manual about a television remote that contains those symbols.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- ori_b 7y ago> And since when was a smiling poop an ‘element of plain text’ Since the Japanese phone vendors shoved it into the character encoding and forced everyone to deal with it if they wanted to be compatible.