Re: hit regions Firefox support update

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Alexander Surkov <
surkov.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Rik. In my understanding hit region and drawFocusIfNeeded are
> currently under the preference. I'm not sure whether there's a standard
> process of getting it out the preference but I would expect we will be
> required to have more or less feature complete implementation and have some
> positive feedback.
>

I guess we can follow this:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/ExposureGuidelines#When_is_an_API_ready_to_be_shipped_by_Gecko.3F

This group should probably get us feedback (Mark, Rich, etc)


> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just requested that the patches are checked into firefox.
>> If all goes well, this means that the upcoming nightly build will have
>> basic support for hit regions.
>>
>> If people had earlier tests for drawFocusIfNeeded, they can simply update
>> them as follows.
>> old code:
>>
>> ctx.drawFocusIfNeeded(element);
>>
>> new code:
>>
>> ctx.drawFocusIfNeeded(element);
>>
>> ctx.addHitRegion({control: element};
>>
>> Alex, how can we turns hit regions and focus rings on by default?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Surkov <
>> surkov.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi. Here's an update of hit region implementation in Firefox in case if
>>> you're curious .
>>>
>>> This week we've got a prototype of hit regions which can be used to
>>> change accessible boundaries. The work hasn't been landed into Firefox
>>> Nightly yet but there's a try build [2].
>>>
>>> There's no plans to continue the work on drawFocusIfNeeded to fit it for
>>> accessible boundaries setting since hit regions looks promising. It's worth
>>> to notice though that drawFocusIfNeeded (used to draw the focus) is part of
>>> Firefox and there's no actions to undo this.
>>>
>>> You can follow hit regions work by watching Mozilla bug [1].
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Alexander.
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966591
>>> [2] https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=a0775f0bf042
>>>
>>
>>
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