Re: Consensus Call re the IndieUI TF Work Statement

Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
 
> Developing useful, meaningful UI events is the goal; not so much the
> fact that it's happening on the Web.

I think the distinctive eleemnt here is that Web technologies are being
used. This affects the design significantly, for example by establishing the
event flow model and conventions for defining the API.

This is not a general UI proposal; it is a Web-related proposal due to the
context and technological background. As a further illustration, one question
which this group will need to consider is whether to define an activation
event distinct from the click event; the history of past proposals, and
especially the guidance in the DOM 3 Events draft and HTML 5 regarding the use
of the click event are both highly relevant to that decision, whereas this
would not be the case if the work were independent of the Web environment.

Some aspects of the work may motivate parallel efforts in other areas, of
course, beyond the Web context, but that is not directly of concern here.

Received on Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:45:35 UTC