- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:59:30 -0600
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
> BTW: a whole discussion about the necessary OS/browser preferences for > accessibility will need to be had and I assume it will likely be had > in the accessibility task force. > > I raised it here since it's not just an accessibility but also an > internationalisation issue. > > Regards, > Silvia. > > This does sound like a necessary and worthwhile discussion. However, I'm not sure this is the right place to have this discussion. Or if the accessibility task force is either, since it's purpose is to look at accessibility issues related to HTML/XHTML and the DOM, not browser behavior. We have to remember that browsers are only one type of user agent and that there are potentially many different user agents consuming HTML. I believe we need to focus less on browser behavior, and more on HTML. Even the reference to the navigator object is browser specific, not DOM specific. Though objects like window and navigator are considered "DOM Level 0", they're really not DOM, as we know the Document Object Model from previous and current implementations. They're part of the BOM, or Browser Object Model. Most particularly, discussions related to the BOM and JavaScript are not related to HTML. I plan on submitting several bugs next week related to the fact that the HTML5 specification has become more of a reverse engineering of browser behavior than a document describing enhancements to HTML. It would remiss for me to plan to file bugs on past effort, without bringing up my concerns with new issues. Even if I do agree with the principle behind the issue. It's unfortunate that the browser companies don't have their own browser-specific working group, unrelated to HTML. This is exactly the type of thing that would fit within that group's agenda. That and the other ongoing discussion related to how browsers handle malformed XHTML. But mine is only an opinion. Perhaps the chairs can answer whether this issue fits within the charter for this group. Regardless, I wish you luck. Shelley
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