- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 03:13:02 +0200
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, 'David Singer' <singer@apple.com>, 'Charles McCathie Nevile' <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, public-html-a11y@w3.org
Sam Ruby, Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:21:09 -0400: > On 09/22/2012 05:36 PM, John Foliot wrote: >> David Singer wrote: >>> >>> But. >>> >>> a) why would anyone now implement longdesc knowing that the >>> descriptions that they'd expose to users were, for the vast majority, >>> 'hopelesslt bad'? >> >> 1) There is no other functional replacement in effect today. > > The keyword being 'today'. > > I'll point out that there is a false dichotomy in play here. > > Today there is only one mainstream browser that natively implements > longdesc. What do you mean by saying that only one 'natively implements'? For mainstream browsers, the situation is: 1. Firefox has support in its A11Y API 2. Opera has contextual menu support. 3. Internet Explorer has A11Y API support (but I have heard that it is buggy). -- leif halvard silli
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