[tt] and <kbd> confliction or intention?

Hi can anyone tell me why the comcode tt tag displays or converts itself into the HTML kbd tag? Is this by intent?

'tt' is a style-based tag, and XHTML 1.0 and future standards like HTML5 deprecated them because you're supposed to use CSS for styling. Instead we have semantic-tags like 'kbd' which actually means something.

As Comcode is meant to be as simple and compatible as possible we do allow the deprecated tags but convert them into non-deprecated equivalents.
It's not perfect as of course we are ascribing meaning to things that the Comcode author may not have, but likely validating markup is more important to people than a philosophical conversation about the meaning of tags, and those who want perfection can (and should) drop down to the level of HTML.
As with most things in web standards, it's a fight between pragmatism and purism.

In the tracker issue you posted you asked "For instance, the codebox tag either has tt or kbd styles applied to the code type which isn't a keyboard input element. I think making keyboard input look like an actual keyboard is great, but not in places I wouldn't expect it to be (sometimes within brackets)."

It is true we use 'kbd' very broadly, probably more broadly than the spec intended. To me, it represents anything you'd type, rather than something literally the document is asking someone to type. So any kind of codename that is verbatim will be in 'kbd'. But we aren't using it stylistically, there is a semantic behind it.

Okay, that answers my question. Thank you.

Edited to add the Comcode editor changed my kbd's into tt's, not the other way round.