- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 21:36:30 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > We should not give authors the power to override the UAs context menu. > Enough authors already try with JavaScript which more often than not > just creates usability problems. Thankfully, descent browsers now > prevent authors blocking/overriding the context menu, let's not make it > easier for them. Indeed, any context menu concept introduced in WA1 would have to have an "escape clause" to let UAs allow users to access the original menu. > I'm not objecting to having elements specifically for menus, as long as > their names are semantic (unlike <popup> which also suggests its > presentation), I object to the method you have proposed for accessing > the menu. The method should not be defined like that, but should be > left to UA and the presentation (CSS) and sometimes behavour > (JavaScript) layers to determine. Conceptually you have a document fragment and a list of commands that apply to that fragment. It seems that linking those two parts would be a markup-level problem. Context menus make sense on any interactive media, not just on visual media. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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