Re: hit regions Firefox support update

Hi, Rik. In my understanding hit region and drawFocusIfNeeded are currently
under the preference. I'm not sure whether there's a standard process of
getting it out the preference but I would expect we will be required to
have more or less feature complete implementation and have some positive
feedback.
Thanks.
Alex.


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just requested that the patches are checked into firefox.
> If all goes well, this means that the upcoming nightly build will have
> basic support for hit regions.
>
> If people had earlier tests for drawFocusIfNeeded, they can simply update
> them as follows.
> old code:
>
> ctx.drawFocusIfNeeded(element);
>
> new code:
>
> ctx.drawFocusIfNeeded(element);
>
> ctx.addHitRegion({control: element};
>
> Alex, how can we turns hit regions and focus rings on by default?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Surkov <
> surkov.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi. Here's an update of hit region implementation in Firefox in case if
>> you're curious .
>>
>> This week we've got a prototype of hit regions which can be used to
>> change accessible boundaries. The work hasn't been landed into Firefox
>> Nightly yet but there's a try build [2].
>>
>> There's no plans to continue the work on drawFocusIfNeeded to fit it for
>> accessible boundaries setting since hit regions looks promising. It's worth
>> to notice though that drawFocusIfNeeded (used to draw the focus) is part of
>> Firefox and there's no actions to undo this.
>>
>> You can follow hit regions work by watching Mozilla bug [1].
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Alexander.
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966591
>> [2] https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=a0775f0bf042
>>
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