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not 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 ap
by VMG 6y ago
not 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.
- gowld 6y agoWhat's paper?
- baddox 6y 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.