[Events] Gutted much of the spec to remove most incomplete or TBD features

The changelog comment sums it up. 

Changelog Summary: "15-April-2015: Based on discussion in the Working Group call today, we've gutted much of the spec to greatly reduce scope for a 1.0 heartbeat draft. Removed all actions associated with continuous events, such as zoom, scroll, value change, etc. Removed UI Manipulators section because it's also associated with continuous events. Removed focus request events because they were somewhat abstract and confusing to authors. The primary remaining features are the simplest of the discrete events, such as dismiss, delete, and the media events (play, pause, etc.) Implementations were previously stalled due to complexities of continuous events, and the working group believes implementation is now readily achievable with this greatly reduced scope."

Current draft includes a few more polish edits tonight:
https://rawgit.com/w3c/indie-ui/master/src/indie-ui-events.html

I think this is ready for a heartbeat draft. The spec is significantly smaller now (~8 pages printed), so group review should be trivial.

For those of you who were not on the call, this change was to increase implementability of the completed, discrete events. We had stalled on the continuous events and it was preventing forward progress. The events remaining in the spec should be both readily implementable and interesting enough to continue the cross-functional discussion of Indie UI once we have some working examples.

Thanks,
James Craig

Received on Monday, 20 April 2015 08:30:22 UTC