- From: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:41:48 +0200
i don't really want to spend a lot of time with this, but any feature authors are provided will be abused. among my list of things which i wish were never let out of pandora's box are defining accesskeys (instead of commands) in html, and another which i'd hope dies on the vine is aural css. sure it is theoretically nice to let someone encode audio. however on average it's going to be used more often by advertisers than actual content developers. the amount of effort required to invest in a feature which is generally not useful far exceeds any value offered to the user by the agent. in the case of accesskeys, a much more useful research area is to developer a browser global way of accessing content which works well for the device/useragent/user. enabling each site to design its own poor access keys is much less useful than letting browsers be configured by their users or share keybindings from one browser to another for a given site. in the case of aural css, the screen reader user agents have clearly reviewed the mistakes of prior features and i congratulate them on their decision not to invest in this area. not all technology is good or useful. some technology thankfully does fail (p3p comes to mind, although it seems that POWDER wants to try again).
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