Re: [css3-marquee] CR published

Bert Bos wrote:
> The CSS WG published a Candidate Recommendation for the Marquee module:
>
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-css3-marquee-20081205/
>
> The module specifies the properties that control the "marquee" effect, a 
> kind of overflow handling where content that is too large moves 
> automatically in and out of view, without the need for a scrollbar. 
> There are properties for, e.g., the direction and the speed of the 
> movement.
>
> The module is primarily targeted at mobile phones, where this effect is 
> more common than on desktop browsers. Indeed, the CSS Mobile Profile[1] 
> depends on this module.
>
> A Candidate Recommendation is a specification that is considered stable 
> enough for implementation, but not yet sufficiently tested to become a 
> Recommendation. In other words, a CR is a "call for implementations."
>
> So we're asking for feedback, especially implementation feedback. The 
> place, as usual, is this mailing list, <www-style@w3.org>. Please, 
> prefix the subject of messages with "[css3-marquee]" as I did on this 
> message. The CR period will last until June 2009, or longer if 
> necessary.
>
> Meanwhile, the working group will collect a test suite. If you have any 
> tests to contribute, please send them to <public-css-testsuite@w3.org> 
> (archived[2]).
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-css-mobile-20080801/
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-css-testsuite/
>
>
>   

Questions in general:

1) Is there such thing as a 'marquee-threshold' or 'marquee-delay' or 
'marquee-pause'?

2) If main purpose of the marquee is usability - in particular 
readability of lengthly texts on small screens then
neither one of the 'marquee-style' values
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-css3-marquee-20081205/#marquee-style)
do not work quite well in this respect. Ideally initial position of the 
text should allow to read start of the text after loading and
after some delay it should start moving.

Implementation question:

How this marquee works with text-overflow:ellipsis ? Conceptually 
text-overflow:ellipsis and
overflow-style: marquee-line are serving the same purposes 
(text-overflow:ellipsis may trigger
tooltip to be shown to read the whole text).

Wouldn't it be better to add value 'marquee' to the 'text-overflow' 
attribute? 
So 'ellipsis' and  'marquee' will be mutually exclusive?

In this case we do not need 'overflow-style' attribute at all.

--
Andrew Fedoniouk.

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Received on Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:21:17 UTC