Re: "untill user agents" retired?

Yes, I know the options, I don't know though that it is possible to  
deliver them.  It might not be posskible for the user agent to style  
the text input area or provide a blinking cursor.

I agree, replace untill with something else not throw it away.  I'm  
not saying don't do the new things, just don't throw away that which  
works where the new ones do not.

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On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:


David Poehlman wrote:

> How do I get a user agent to allow a person who is using screen  
> magnification and is sitting on a blank space to tell that person  
> that the blank space they are sitting on is infact an text input area?

The normal way: a blinking caret appears. Styling in the user agent  
may also completely invert the input's colors, add a thicker (or  
additional dotted) border, etc.

 > I do not understand what harm removing the "untill user agents" from
 > the guidelines as written to supply a fork for those who need the
 > functionality that they provide does to detract from progress.

Because instead of "until user agents" it should, if anything, say  
"unless the user agents you're targetting don't support it".

You yourself said that this issue keeps coming up even with new user  
agents. By that reasonining, the "until user agents" would never be  
fulfilled, and this would detract from progress, no?

> If Noscript were used properly, it would be a magnificent thing for  
> all kinds of reasons.

Rather than DOM-scripting based progressive enhancements?

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