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		anon4 on May 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker culture and the fear of wysiwyg > they start doing formatting oriented things such as add spacing using actual spaces Then perhaps the space key on the keyboard should be tied to adding spacing, rather than space characters. That's really a failing of the WYSIWYG editor to take into account normal computer peripherals. The user wants space. The user has a large board with keys on it with a huge "space" key. The user presses the large space key and gets space. A good WYSIWYG editor should account for the fact that my keyboard has keys on it that aren't letters.

mantrax5 on May 27, 2014 [–]

Let's continue with that approach.

Then maybe hitting a letter should only render the letter at the same size and font as the one printed on the keyboard.

And if you want to change the font, well it's just a drawing, so you can't. It would make the keyboard non-WYSIWYG.

anon4 on May 27, 2014 | [–]

I was advocating the exact opposite.

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