Re: Web Browser Preferences and Internationalisation/Accessibility

> 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

Received on Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:00:04 UTC