Re: Making all interactive elements visible

Charles,
Have we asked the DOM working group?

Rather than have developers develop proprietary solutions, I would rather
them work on open solutions.  How many authors add event handlers
programmatically?  Probably not many.  Real doms also may provide this
information, we should check.

Jon


On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

> Is DOM going to start including this information in a future version? I fail
> to see why it would - it is a user agent issue, arising becuase the user
> agent has to actually handle and process the DOM.
> 
> Chaals
> 
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jon Gunderson wrote:
> 
>   I think for this version of the document we want to make sure we have good
>   techniques to access event information.  In this case we may want to limit
>   the minimal requirements for event related checkpoints to the information
>   that is available in current DOM specs.  As DOM provides more information,
>   we can then increase the requirement in a later document.  This stengthens
>   UAAG requirement of using the DOM.
> 
>   Jon
> 
> 
>   At 12:47 PM 3/8/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>   >Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>   > >
>   > > If UAs don't keep track of the information, they will have a hard time
>   > making
>   > > use  of it.
>   >
>   >The DOM API lets you add handlers, trigger them, and remove them,
>   >so the UA can do useful things through that interface even without
>   >keeping a list of the handlers available.
>   >
>   >  -Ian
>   >
>   > > So it becomes an implementation issue. (That doesn't solve it
>   > > though). In particular, how to make sure that these tings fit in a
>   > reasonable
>   > > navigation context is a question for which it would be nice to provide
>   > > several techniques.
>   > >
>   > > (I have no ideas yet)
>   > >
>   > > Charles
>   > >
>   > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Ian Jacobs wrote:
>   > >
>   > >   Aaron Leventhal wrote:
>   > >   >
>   > >   > The only problem I have with
>   > >   >
>   > >   >    A[onmouseover] { background: yellow; color: black }
>   > >   > is that I don't think it supports mouseovers that come from script,
>   > such as:
>   > >   >
>   > >   > function addMouseOvers()
>   > >   > {
>   > >   > var nodeList = document.getElementsByTagName('TD');
>   > >   > var endList=nodeList.length;
>   > >   > for (var count =0; count < endList; count++) {
>   > >   >   node=nodeList[count];
>   > >   >   // Using setAttribute instead of AddEventListener gets around bug
>   > where
>   > >   >   // the mouseover in the tablecell is ignored when you're over the
>   > text inside the cell
>   > >   >   node.addEventListener('mouseover',showTheSquare, false );
>   > >   >   }
>   > >   > }
>   > >   >
>   > >   > I think this will be quite common.
>   > >
>   > >   Per our discussion with the DOM WG, the DOM 2 event
>   > >   handler registration mechanism [1] doesn't allow programs
>   > >   to list the available handlers. So unless UA's keep track
>   > >   of this information themselves, I don't know how to help
>   > >   until the WG gives us this information (which we requested
>   > >   at the meeting).
>   > >
>   > >    - Ian
>   > >
>   > >   [1]
>   > >   http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-registration
>   > >
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