Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
> Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>>>> C1) Insert spaces (say 4); we would have to use non-breaking spaces of 
>>>> course.
>> +0. If users want to indent, they will be able to do that with spaces
>> (since now spaces are meaningful). Not doing this will not convince
>> users not to indent paragraphs; they will continue to do this using
>> spaces, but they will have one more grudge against XWiki. I implied that
>> the spaces are inserted at the cursor position, and not at the start of
>> the paragraph.
> 
> Yes, spaces would be inserted at the caret position.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> OTOH, not doing this means that there's no way to navigate out of the
>> editor without the use of the mouse. And I strongly disagree with this.
>> I don't like taking my hands off the keyboard. When I find something
>> that doesn't work without the mouse in a site, the
>> accessibility/usability pseudo-expert in me wakes up and gets very
>> angry. VERY angry.
> 
> And you propose?
> 

Go with spaces, since the tab key is important for users, and normal
users aren't that bound to the keyboard as I am. We could try to use
Ctrl+Tab to go to the next field, although it is used by browsers to
switch tabs (or the OS to switch desktops).

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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