- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:01:31 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, public-html@w3.org
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > >> I can /imagine/ a concrete scenario. Does that count? > >> > >> What if a visual-rendering UA delegated drawing of widgets (e.g. > >> textareas) to the system and the system did not provide information > >> about caret blink rate back? Then the author would want to draw a > >> caret, but the UA would be unable to provide the correct blink rate > >> to use. > > > > What platform is like this? > > Not claiming any are. If it's not a real problem, let's not solve it. > There's also the simpler case where a platform simply fails to surface a > blink rate. Android has carets, but can you access the blink rate? Can't > find anything about it on the developer site. If the platform's blink rate is simply hard-coded, then the UA can just return the hard-coded value, it doesn't need an API to ask for it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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