Re: UA/GL duplication of effort? Re: Review of Script Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (part 2.) from Jim Ley on 2001-09-12 (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org from July to September 2001)

From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:26:51 +0100
To: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, "Jonathan Chetwynd" <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>, "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Message-ID: <008d01c13be2$8d59ba00$083d70c2@7020CT>

>There is a problem, if it is done in the obvious way.

As I originally thought, but obviously didn't explain well.

>Having the author set an onClick and an onFocus
>that lead to the same script, if it shows up as two
>entries in the context-adapted "what can I do?"
>menu, is a real performance degrader.

onMouseOver and an onFocus are more likely, click isn't defined only for a
pointing device is it?

If they are identical scripts handlers for the two events point to the
same function, then a UA could collapse them to one, the same as
collapsing icon and text links could be done, so the approach is possible,
it needs to be mentioned in the specifications.

Jim.

Received on Wednesday, 12 September 2001 19:27:37 UTC