- From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:26:18 -0800
- To: Chris Blouch <cblouch@aol.com>
- CC: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>, "Evans, Donald" <Donald.Evans@corp.aol.com>, Earl Johnson <Earl.Johnson@Sun.COM>, wai-xtech@w3.org
I would like to think of ARIA in particular as a progressive enhancement feature rather than being a solution for everything. While building web 2.0 apps we do not want to discourage developers from thinking symantically about the pages they are building. I think this is fundemental for best software practices as well as for web 2.0 apps. Regards, Victor Chris Blouch wrote: > > This is a tough nut to crack. We are trying to make web apps behave > like desktop apps and the precedent set forth by various OSes has been > discord in some areas of navigation. So do we emulate the desktop to > the point where web apps also vary from platform to platform or do we > try to extract what a best practice is. Of course we go with a single > best practice. That, unfortunately, means there will be winners and > losers. For the losers there is the loss of potentially years of > muscle memory from consistent object-action bindings. Obviously the > choices will be hard and should not be driven by platform dominance, > but we must either choose unity and consistency between > browsers/platforms or it the same old dichotomy all over again. One of > the alluring aspects of the web was platform or user-agent > agnosticism. Some suffering by some users now for a consistent widget > behavior for everyone later seems a worthy cost. The age old common > good argument. > > CB > > Joseph Scheuhammer wrote: >> >>> >>> As an example, many people already understand how to operate a treeview >>> from the MS OS. Therefore it makes sense to mimic that keyboard >>> behavior in the same type of widget on the web. >> >> Except...those people who use Macs. They are used to its treeview >> key navigation, so it seem odd to them to switch gears to the web >> tree widget. >> >> Which doesn't answer the question re: sticking to the platform's key >> navigation vs. overriding. It just adds fuel to fire (to switch >> metaphors). >> >
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