Re: Web Browser Preferences and Internationalisation/Accessibility

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com> wrote:
>> BTW: a whole discussion about the necessary OS/browser preferences for
>> accessibility will need to be had and I assume it will likely be had
>> in the accessibility task force.
>>
>> I raised it here since it's not just an accessibility but also an
>> internationalisation issue.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Silvia.
>>
>>
>
> This does sound like a necessary and worthwhile discussion.
>
> However, I'm not sure this is the right place to have this discussion.
> Or if the accessibility task force is either, since it's purpose is to
> look at accessibility issues related to HTML/XHTML and the DOM, not
> browser behavior.
>
> We have to remember that browsers are only one type of user agent and
> that there are potentially many different user agents consuming HTML.
> I believe we need to focus less on browser behavior, and more on HTML.
>
> Even the reference to the navigator object is browser specific, not
> DOM specific. Though objects like window and navigator are considered
> "DOM Level 0", they're really not DOM, as we know the Document Object
> Model from previous and current implementations. They're part of the
> BOM, or Browser Object Model. Most particularly, discussions related
> to the BOM and JavaScript are not related to HTML. I plan on
> submitting several bugs next week related to the fact that the HTML5
> specification has become more of a reverse engineering of browser
> behavior than a document describing enhancements to HTML. It would
> remiss for me to plan to file bugs on past effort, without bringing up
> my concerns with new issues. Even if I do agree with the principle
> behind the issue.
>
> It's unfortunate that the browser companies don't have their own
> browser-specific working group, unrelated to HTML. This is exactly the
> type of thing that would fit within that group's agenda. That and the
> other ongoing discussion related to how browsers handle malformed
> XHTML.

Maybe then the discussion has to move to the WHATWG.

I was indeed uncertain if this was the correct forum.

Regards,
Silvia.

Received on Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:49:19 UTC