Re: Consensus Call re the IndieUI TF Work Statement

Well, the challenge will be defining how these events bubble in a standard
W3C methodology. Are you suggesting this would be an implementation and
that we write theme in an abstract way so that native platforms could adopt
them?

Rich

Rich Schwerdtfeger



From:	Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
To:	public-indie-ui@w3.org,
Date:	07/11/2012 09:46 AM
Subject:	Re: Consensus Call re the IndieUI TF Work Statement



On 12-07-10 7:16 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Colleagues:
>
> It is now some three weeks since we've any edits have been proposed to
> our IndieUI Task Force Work Statement:
>
> Furthermore, all previously suggested (and teleconference adopted) edits
> have, I believe, now been fully incorporated in this document available
at:
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/IUITF
>
> Therefore, this is a call for consensus on this Work Statement. If you
> have any further tweaks to propose, please do so no later than close of
> business Boston Time on Wednesday, 18 July. If there are no further
> recommendations for perfecting this document, we will consider our Work
> Statement agreed by the Task Force and its two supporting Working Groups
> at that time.
>
> Janina Sajka, TF Facilitator
> IndieUI Task Force
>
>
Another point of clarification.  The statement of work regarding events
includes the phrase "... interface functionality used by Web
applications.".  While I appreciate that this is the W3C and that we are
discussing Web standards, I don't think we should be overly constrained
by the "Web" aspect of the "application".  At a conceptual level, the
user interfaces we are discussing are not that much different from
desktop user interfaces.  A concrete example:  the UI for a web-based
rich text editor is not that much different from that of a desktop rich
text editor.  Both have tool bars, menus, caret, scrolling regions, and
so on.  The use of DHTML to emulate desktop-like interfaces within web
pages is part of the reason why the Indie UI group exists.  Of course,
the way the web pages work is a constraint, and we should be sensitive
to it, but it shouldn't be the point of departure.

Developing useful, meaningful UI events is the goal; not so much the
fact that it's happening on the Web.

--
;;;;joseph.


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