[i18n-activity] 'Key value' terminology is ambiguous and confusing

r12a has just created a new issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity:

== 'Key value' terminology is ambiguous and confusing ==
2. Keyboard Event key Value Tables
https://w3c.github.io/uievents-key/#key-value-tables

I found it very hard to get to grips with the text about keyboard 
events in the three specs uievents, uievents-key and uievents-code 
because it seemed that the two words 'key' and 'value' were juxtaposed
 to mean more than one possible thing.

One suggestion would be to refer to the KeyboardEvent.key values 
defined explicitly in uievents-key using a specially defined term such
 as 'functionally-defined values', or 'reserved values', or some such 
term that clearly indicates what they are and looks like a technical 
term.

A side benefit of this would be that you could then talk about 
'printable characters' as being the set of character produced by keys 
that are not within the set of functionally-defined values.


Please view or discuss this issue at 
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/302 using your GitHub 
account

Received on Thursday, 15 December 2016 11:02:40 UTC