- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:56:05 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Hi Maciej and all, On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > On Sep 19, 2012, at 4:11 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes, exactly what I meant. But I don't think it's going to work, in >> particular in Desktop browsers. Was just a random idea for touch >> devises. > > OK, one detail that was missing is that it's for touch devices and the expected way to activate it is a flick gesture. Unfortunately, flicks/swipes already have a defined meaning in most mobile and tablet browsers, namely, panning the page. We likely cannot overload this gesture for images, because panning/scrolling is a critical operation. And many pages consist largely of images, so users cannot be expected to carefully avoid them when panning. > > I hope this illustrates the distance between a brainstorming-level idea and a description with enough detail to guide implementation. Then we would be back to the standard tap and hold gesture for a touch device contextual menu. Not quite the wow factor but functional non-the-less. Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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