On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Janina Sajka wrote: > > I should add that we actually raised changing this in the ARIA spec a > few months ago, but we got massive kickback from our implementers. > > I didn't mean to come off so brusque -- Sorry about that. No offense taken. On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > > The term dialog has been used in accessibility API for well over a > decade and is a common short name for a dialog box found in GUIs. We > also wanted something shorter than dialog_box. This was our rationale. Fair enough. > We appreciate that. We now have considerable implementation support at > this time and developers who have used it are happy with it. No worries. I don't think the conflict will be that problematic in practice anyway. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:52:52 GMT
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