- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:43:01 -0500
- To: Earl Johnson <Earl.Johnson@Sun.COM>
- CC: wai-xtech@w3.org
Hey Earl, Some of your ideas are issues we are aware of (e.g., moving between containers), while others are not. > My question is does the architecture developed for Reorderer such that > it could be enhaced for multiple selections, dragging things from one > container/component across boundaries to another? We are approaching a 0.1 release, meaning that this is not the final version of the Reorderer by a long shot. We plan to continue developing it over the coming months. How we do that is not yet decided; that is, we will either change the architecture so that others can enhance it as you suggest, or we will change it so that it supports that kind of functionality (multiple selections, inter-container dnd) out of the box. One of the issues we will tackle first, due to our association with the uPortal project, is allowing for nested orderable objects. For example, we have been asked to help with the reordering of portlets within a portal, and work on that is progressing. Note that one of those portlets could contain a Lightbox -- a case of nested orderables. In this case, unlike the dragging between container, one wants to confine the re-ordering to a "level". In this example, that would be the ordering of portlets at the highest level, and the ordering of images within a lightbox portlet. It's going to be interesting to figure out how to achieve all these different ways of reordering things. In any case, do you mind if I post your suggestions to the fluid-work list, so we can get the Fluid UX people involved? > Are you proposing it for the DHTML stuff or was your post more for > informational purposes? To the extent that we are trying to follow/define standards, in terms of (1) ARIA markup (e.g., Lightbox.html), and (2) keyboard accessibility, then, yes I am proposing it for DHTML. An issue, however, is that the current DHTML documents are focussed on widgets such as menus, checkboxes, and so forth. Fluid's lightbox, and reorderer are not really widgets. So, I'm not entirely sure where they fit in vis-a-vis the emerging DHTML standards. Possibly they represent a more general pattern -- "if users are navigating among a set of items, be they items in a menu, list, or lightbox, the general way to do that is to use the arrow keys.", and "reordering objects within a set using the keyboard should use ctl+cursor keys", or something along those lines. -- ;;;;joseph 'A dog, a panic in a pagoda' - "Bob", W. A. Yankovic -
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