Re: Proposal: Canvas accessibility and a media querries approach for alternative content (Action Item 6 in the HTML Accessibility Task Force)

hi henri,
>This way, the call to drawFocusRing() can be an unconditional part of a
paint routine and the check to see if the element is focused can be done in
the UA >C++ code without the script having to make an explicit JS-to-C++
query for each element to decide whether to call drawFocusRing().
>(I retract my statement that it might make sense to imply a call to
focus(). It is a bit surprising, though, that a method called drawFoo()
actually means >drawFooIfBar().)

your use of the technical does little for my attempt to understand what you
are talking about.

"the call to drawFocusRing() can be an unconditional part of a paint routine
and the check to see if the element is focused can be done in the UA >C++
code"

why would this not be the case if the result of the check is that the
element isn't focused it is to be given focus?


regards
stevef




2010/1/20 Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>

> On Jan 20, 2010, at 16:58, Steven Faulkner wrote:
>
> > currently the spec [
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/2dcontext/Overview.html#focus-management] says:
> >>  If element is not focused or is not a descendant of the element with
> whose context the method is associated, then return false and abort these
> steps.
>
> The spec says why it is designed like this:
> "This method only draws the focus ring if the element is focused, so that
> it can simply be called whenever drawing the element, without checking
> whether the element is focused or not first."
>
> This way, the call to drawFocusRing() can be an unconditional part of a
> paint routine and the check to see if the element is focused can be done in
> the UA C++ code without the script having to make an explicit JS-to-C++
> query for each element to decide whether to call drawFocusRing().
>
> (I retract my statement that it might make sense to imply a call to
> focus(). It is a bit surprising, though, that a method called drawFoo()
> actually means drawFooIfBar().)
>
> --
>  Henri Sivonen
> hsivonen@iki.fi
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
>
>
>


-- 
with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG Europe
Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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