Re: role cardinality [was: Re: ARIA Proposal ]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:34:20 +0200, Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>  
wrote:
>> The reason the proposal says to only use the first value is because it  
>> is unclear what browsers are to do with multiple values at this point.
>
> Place in DOM, for starters.

The proposal doesn't limit that in any way. In fact, placing in the DOM is  
done at the parsing level. This is done at the processing level of the  
created nodes.


>>> * forward reference to HTML5 for the definition of 'token' in the
>>> list-of-tokens value for the role attribute is a problem.
>>
>> Why?
>
> Unnecessary ambiguity in the definition of the proposal.

It's actually really accurate because of this, which is a good thing for  
interoperability testing. I'm not sure what makes you say it's ambigu. It  
also makes it a lot more consistent with the rest of the HTML language.


> Please give us a link to a definition.

All definitions are linked. Although maybe a normative reference at the  
end would be good.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Thursday, 27 September 2007 20:02:24 UTC