- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:00:05 +0200
- To: "Aaron Leventhal" <aaronlev@moonset.net>
- Cc: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "John Foliot" <foliot@wats.ca>, "'Gregory J.Rosmaita'" <oedipus@hicom.net>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>, wai-xtech@w3.org, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:29:12 +0200, Aaron Leventhal <aaronlev@moonset.net> wrote: > > Yes, you can actually do things like <span role="wairole:menuitem"> or > <div role="main"> Oh. That's great. It makes it a lot simpler to allow in HTML -- we simply drop the namespaces altogether and use naming conventions. This is exactly why I expected reverse engineering to have to take place -- the implementation is not 1:1 per spec. :-) Given this information, I don't see why there is a scripted solution that jumps through hoops when it works without it. > We haven't told the world about that since it's not really legal syntax, > but we allow it. If HTML 5 legalized it, that would be great. Indeed. > Unfortunately you can only use XHTML and wairole with it this way -- the > "wairole" prefix is accepted to mean the standard WAI-ARIA roles, > without needing an xmlns which wouldn't have been possible. I guess we could have a fixed set of keywords. > For me, reverse engineering means playing detective and spending a lot > of time on frustrating little issues. Hopefully that would be minimal, > and any implementors would instead get most of what they need out of the > information I'm more than willing to share about the Firefox > implementation. I do think running both automated and end-user tests and > comparing output would be a useful way to harmonize implementations. Great. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
Received on Wednesday, 27 June 2007 20:00:49 UTC