OK. I'll bring the whatwg discussion to a close. Is Mozilla in agreement to
not restrict which elements can be the target of a hit region? Or should it
be any focusable element? What about a non-focusable element that can still
get click events that a magnifier might still want to know the bounds of?
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger
<schwer@us.ibm.com>wrote:
> All:
>
> We need the less restrictive version of the API. There will be times where
> we have controls whereby you need access to subcomponents to tie the region
> location to - such as a combo box. An HTML5 select will not allow you to
> provide this level of control. Furthermore all HTML5 elements support
> tabindex. The restrictions would largely require us to restrict keyboard
> navigation to form controls in fallback content which would take the web
> back to 2004 when we started WAI-ARIA. If there is an opportunity to use
> HTML5 standard controls in fallback then by all means we should use them
> but the restriction only holds us back - not unlike authors who chose to
> use custom UI controls with script and css. Canvas is all about creating a
> custom UI.
>
> I am not able to post to WhatWG but we must remove the restrictions if
> this is to work properly.
>
> Rich
>
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>
>
> [image: Inactive hide details for Dominic Mazzoni ---02/19/2014 01:04:33
> PM---On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@g]Dominic
> Mazzoni ---02/19/2014 01:04:33 PM---On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Rik
> Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote: >
>
> From: Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>
> To: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
> Cc: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Richard
> Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, Jay Munro <jaymunro@microsoft.com>, Mark
> Sadecki <mark@w3.org>, "public-canvas-api@w3.org" <
> public-canvas-api@w3.org>, Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
> Date: 02/19/2014 01:04 PM
>
> Subject: Re: hit regions Firefox support update
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>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Rik Cabanier <*cabanier@gmail.com*<cabanier@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> do we have implementer agreement on the less restrictive definition in
> canvas 2d context spec or do we have convince hixie over on whatwg?
>
> I think we do.
> Dominic is arguing for less restrictions on WhatWG and the original
> change request was authored by Ted O'Connor from Apple.
>
>
> Steve, do you want to chime in too? I feel like we're just going in
> circles.
>
>
