- From: Andy Heath <andyheath@axelrod.plus.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:13:45 +0000
- To: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
- CC: public-indie-ui@w3.org
I hadn't read this when I wrote the proposed text I just posted for the user context doc but it makes perfect sense in terms of the examples I put in. andy > James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote: > >> 1. There is 1:1 overlap with the planned User Context notifications when >> user preferences change. Without that module, the events in their current >> form do not address the problem of what happens when a user lands on the >> page to watch a video. No "change" in the user's preference occurs, so no >> events will fire, and the web page will not be able to know if a user wants >> captions on or off. > > I think this point is decisive: the only means for the Web application to > ascertain whether captions are desired is to invoke a query, which is exactly > what the User Contexts specification is meant to allow, at which point we've > exceeded the scope of IndieUI events. >> >> 2. By adding these in the Events module, we'll have to address the idea of >> "restricted access" to user data in the general events spec, which requires >> the same amount of privacy restriction that we've anticipated for the user >> context spec. > > I agree this is significant. Of course, the UA could dispatch the caption > events if and only if the privacy settings provided in relation to User > Contexts allow this preference to be disclosed, but this would introduce too > tight a coupling between events and Contexts, since the UA would then have to > implement the privacy features of the latter in order to conform to the > former. > > The cleaner solution is as you proposed - to move this into the User Contexts > spec. > > > Cheers andy -- __________________ Andy Heath http://axelafa.com
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