RE: hit regions Firefox support update

Lets see what folks say Monday on hit regions, whether we put them in CR or not. Mark, want to add it to the agenda?


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From: Rik Cabanier
Sent: 2/14/2014 11:20 AM
To: Jay Munro
Cc: Alexander Surkov; public-canvas-api@w3.org; Mark Sadecki
Subject: Re: hit regions Firefox support update




On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Jay Munro <jaymunro@microsoft.com<mailto:jaymunro@microsoft.com>> wrote:
We've already removed all the at risk features with the exception of drawFocusIfNeeded , which was agreed upon in the A11y subgroup.

We'll have to bring it back if we want a11y to work in canvas :-(

From: Rik Cabanier [mailto:cabanier@gmail.com<mailto:cabanier@gmail.com>]
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 10:15 AM
To: Jay Munro
Cc: Alexander Surkov; public-canvas-api@w3.org<mailto:public-canvas-api@w3.org>; Mark Sadecki

Subject: Re: hit regions Firefox support update



On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Jay Munro <jaymunro@microsoft.com<mailto:jaymunro@microsoft.com>> wrote:
Do we have a 2nd implementation of hitRegions?

We do not.
They are listed as at-risk so we can still go to CR with them.

We should probably update the at-risk list to state that part or all of hit regions might be removed.

From: Rik Cabanier [mailto:cabanier@gmail.com<mailto:cabanier@gmail.com>]
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:33 AM
To: Alexander Surkov
Cc: public-canvas-api@w3.org<mailto:public-canvas-api@w3.org>; Mark Sadecki
Subject: Re: hit regions Firefox support update

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<mailto: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