Hi, Dominic. I don't see benefits of restrictions of this kind. Imo
anything clickable should be able to have associated hit region.
Thanks.
Alexander.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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