Re: Deprecation of DOMAttrModified (Was: DOMActivate vs. Activation Behavior)

On 10/02/10 8:37 AM, James Craig wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:03 PM, David Bolter wrote:
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>> That said, I'm not sure if this pattern is used a lot today.
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> As far as I'm aware, it's not used at all today, because there isn't a way to implement it.
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Currently IE has onpropertychange and Firefox / Opera have DOMAttrModified.
Aren't they sufficient?

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> On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:03 PM, David Bolter wrote:
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>> Hi Jonas,
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>> The idea is that AT can (through API) cause the modification of an attribute, and the web developer should have a standard way to tell that modification happened (without js timer/polling). For example perhaps visual focus changes (aria-activedescedant). That said, I'm not sure if this pattern is used a lot today.
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>> cheers,
>> David
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Received on Tuesday, 9 February 2010 23:47:20 UTC