Re: role="contexthelp" from Cameron McCormack on 2008-10-31 (public-svg-wg@w3.org from October to December 2008)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:51:35 +1100
To: public-svg-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <20081031235135.GG12914@arc.mcc.id.au>

Hi Doug.

Doug Schepers:
> As discussed during the telcon and our chat (transcript included below),
> I am sympathetic to your point, and agree that we should avoid assigning
> behaviors to role values, despite the benefit of authorial incentive,
> until there is a clear mechanism for exposing to the author the
> knowledge of UA behavior (and thus whether or not they need to provide
> an explicit script mechanism to compensate).  I have removed the
> "contexthelp" role, and indicated that we may include a way to toggle
> tooltips explicitly in a future version of the spec.  Please let us know
> if this satisfies your comment.

That does satisfy me, thanks.

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Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/

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