RE: comments

UAWG is having a meeting today. I don't anticipate any issues. Will send you something after the meeting.
Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Arthur Barstow
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 8:08 AM
> To: jimallan@tsbvi.edu
> Cc: marcosc@opera.com; Robin Berjon; public-webapps@w3.org; UAWG list
> Subject: Re: comments
> 
> On 5/28/10 2:15 PM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Robin Berjon<robin@berjon.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jim,
> >>
> >> your comments reach us right after the WG decided to take the
> >> specification to CR, but thankfully I was a bit slow with the editing
> >> so that we could take them into account :)
> >>
> >> On May 27, 2010, at 22:42 , Jim Allan wrote:
> >>
> >>> View-mode: fullscreen. It is not clear whether fullscreen includes a
> >>> full set of chrome, or includes no chrome.  You mention 'chrome' in
> >>> the 'windowed' and 'floating' viewmodes. For consistency, chrome
> >>> presence should be noted in fullscreen.
> >>>
> >> That's correct, I've now clarified this by adding a mention of chrome for
> both fullscreen and maximized.
> >>
> >>
> >>> It should be noted that the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
> >>> [1] has success criteria that allow the user to override author
> >>> settings for a variety of viewport view-modes including the
> >>> inclusion/exclusion of 'chrome.'
> >>>
> >> Yes, and that's fine. The idea here is that the UA would make a best effort
> at matching the intent in a way that makes sense rather than be ultra strict.
> For instance, if the app goes fullscreen but keeps a teeny bit of chrome (at
> user option or not) to make it easier to exit fullscreen, then matching the
> view-mode: fullscreen media query is quite clearly the right thing to do.
> >>
> >>
> >>> Please consider including a statement such as "The user agent *must*
> >>> display the view-modes in a manner that meets the accessibility
> >>> guidelines of UAAG20. "
> >>>
> >> As much as I'd like more UAs to support UAAG I don't think that this
> requirement is appropriate here. The VM specification defines a technology
> with a single purpose: "if the window in which the content is being rendered is
> like this, then apply these CSS style rules". It does *not* define how a UA
> ought to display an actual set of window states, it doesn't in fact even require
> UAs to support all the view modes. I'd expect that an application running on
> an iPhone would only support maximized and fullscreen — if it applied
> different style rules for each, it would still be 100% conformant.
> >>
> >>
> > FWIW, I agree with Robin here.
> >
> I also agree with Robin and Marcos.
> 
> Jim, WAI UA community - please let us know (as soon as possible) whether or
> not Robin's response and edits adequately address your comments.
> 
> -Regards, Art Barstow
> 
> 
>

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