Action Items (find definition for focus, clarify change of context)

Hi all,

I was given two action items from last week's Tuesday teleconference:

1: Look at definition of focus in other W3C specs
2: Include clarification about change in context vs. change in content
and incorporate David's suggestion about menus.


Action Item 1: Look at definition of focus in other W3C specs

I couldn't find a definition for focus in any of the markup
specifications, CSS specifications, or DOM specifications. There were
two parts of the HTML 4.01 specification that talk about focus, but do
not define the term:

A: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/scripts.html#adef-onfocus
"The onfocus event occurs when an element receives focus either by the
pointing device or by tabbing navigation. This attribute may be used
with the following elements: A, AREA, LABEL, INPUT, SELECT, TEXTAREA,
and BUTTON."

B: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.11
"In an HTML document, an element must receive focus from the user in
order to become active and perform its tasks. For example, users must
activate a link specified by the A element in order to follow the
specified link. Similarly, users must give a TEXTAREA focus in order
to enter text into it."


Action Item 2: Include clarification about change in context vs.
change in content and incorporate David's suggestion about menus.

Am I right in thinking that David's suggestion was about context
menus? If so, I'm not sure how it could be included in the success
criteria. If I've misunderstood what was required of me, please
explain and I'll try and get something together before Tuesday's
meeting.

Context means to take into account other information, such as the
setting or surroundings, to help determine the meaning of something. A
context menu, as the name suggests, is context aware, and the items
included in the menu consider the context at the point where the menu
is activated. For example, right-clicking on different elements in a
web page will produce a menu that contains items relevant to that
element. A context menu may include an item such as "open link in a
new window", which wouldn't appear in the menu if the menu was
activated in a part of the document that wasn't a link.

The current definition for "change of context" is:

"A change of user agent, viewport, user interface controls, or focus;
or complete change of content."

The contentious areas as it stands are "user interface controls",
which there has been a proposal to remove, and "complete change of
content", which could be interpreted as no change of context if the
whole document changes except a specific item, such as a logo.

In terms of our guideline, context relates to the meaning of the
original document. If the content of the document changes to an extent
where the document no longer has the same meaning, then there has been
a change in context. Based on this, I suggest the following definition
for change of context:

"A change of user agent, viewport, or focus; or a change of content
that changes the meaning of the original document."

Best regards,

Gez

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Received on Sunday, 18 September 2005 21:16:08 UTC