Re: hit regions Firefox support update

On 2/14/14, 2:25 PM, Jay Munro wrote:> 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?

Absolutely. I'll be sending around the agenda shortly.

Mark
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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
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> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Jay Munro <jaymunro@microsoft.com <mailto:jaymunro@microsoft.com>> wrote:
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>     We’ve already removed all the at risk features with the exception of drawFocusIfNeeded , which was agreed upon in the A11y subgroup.
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> We'll have to bring it back if we want a11y to work in canvas :-(
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>     *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
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>     *Subject:* Re: hit regions Firefox support update____
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>     On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Jay Munro <jaymunro@microsoft.com <mailto:jaymunro@microsoft.com>> wrote:____
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>     Do we have a 2^nd implementation of hitRegions?____
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>     We do not.____
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>     They are listed as at-risk so we can still go to CR with them.____
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>     We should probably update the at-risk list to state that *part* or all of hit regions might be removed.____
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>         *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____
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>         I just requested that the patches are checked into firefox.____
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>         If all goes well, this means that the upcoming nightly build will have basic support for hit regions.____
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>         If people had earlier tests for drawFocusIfNeeded, they can simply update them as follows.____
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>         old code:____
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>             ctx.drawFocusIfNeeded(element);____
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>             ctx.drawFocusIfNeeded(element);____
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>             ctx.addHitRegion({control: element};____
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>         Alex, how can we turns hit regions and focus rings on by default?____
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>         On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com <mailto:surkov.alexander@gmail.com>> wrote:____
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>         Hi. Here's an update of hit region implementation in Firefox in case if you're curious .____
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>         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].____
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>         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.____
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>         You can follow hit regions work by watching Mozilla bug [1].____
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>         Thanks.
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>         [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966591
>         [2] https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=a0775f0bf042____
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Mark Sadecki
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