treatment of Tab ?

One consideration for web editing that I keep coming back to is the
treatment of the Tab key.  I would like to start a conversation about
that.

Frequently in web editing environments I want to enter, just for
example, a bit of code, or I want to put something roughly into columns.
Usually the treatment of the Tab key is different than I expect:
the browser moves the cursor to the next form field, or the editor
suppresses the Tab, or the editor inserts an arbitrary number of spaces.

For folks who have formed reliable keyboard habits over the years, "just
don't type Tab!" is not humane advice.

It seems that using HTML+CSS alone, you cannot express layouts that
involve tabstops.  Maybe that is the first problem to solve?

Dave

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David Young
dyoung@pobox.com    Urbana, IL    (217) 721-9981

Received on Saturday, 9 January 2016 19:44:30 UTC