- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:05:41 -0700
- To: Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, John J Barton <johnjbarton@johnjbarton.com>, Olli@pettay.fi, Rafael Weinstein <rafaelw@google.com>, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Adam Klein <adamk@google.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au> wrote: > On 8/07/11 10:21 PM, Sean Hogan wrote: >> - ARIA support in JS libs currently involves updating aria-attributes to >> be appropriate to behavior the lib is implementing. Attribute mutation >> listeners would allow an inverse approach - behaviors being triggered off >> changes to aria-attributes. > > As has been mentioned, listening for attribute mutations is horrendously > inefficient because your handler has to receive every mutation, even if only > interested in one attribute. This is a limitation of current mutation events. We don't have to repeat this mistake. Allowing a script to listen for changes to a specific attribute is a big low-hanging fruit. ~TJ
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