- From: Michael <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:56:37 +0900
Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com>, 2008-01-27 23:02 +0000: [...] > The specification could include an explicit statement of the form "UAs > must ignore the accesskey= attribute", but any such statement would be > in the yet-to-be-written "Rendering" section. That statement would conflict with existing, long-standing requirements that a number of large mobile operators have published and that have been followed by the vendors providing compatible browsers for their services, as well as content providers wanting to deliver compatible content for customers of those operators using those services. And market realities will require that statement to be ignored by any browser vendor wanting to get their product preinstalled on handsets destined for use with carrier networks in Japan (and I think in other markets as well) and have it be compatible with user expectations of existing content. A browser that doesn't support accesskey is going to break/degrade the expected user experience of that content. So any browser that is looking to compete in the market with the existing browsers in Japan intended for use with that content would never be accepted or shipped by device makers targeting that market, nor by the mobile operators their devices are targeted/branded for -- if that browser is intended for the same use case as the core browsers already shipped on handsets here. And even if it were possible to convince the device makers and carriers, making accesskey non-conforming would push all the compatibility/content-migration costs onto the thousands of content providers who'd be forced to remove from all their existing content the numbered image markers they currently have in it to visually indicate accesskey associations. --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/ http://sideshowbarker.net/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 2237 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080128/e1019a70/attachment.bin>
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