- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:16:42 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Cc: David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>, Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com>, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, Nikos Andronikos <Nikos.Andronikos@cisra.canon.com.au>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
Hi, Tab, Patrick– On 8/15/16 5:10 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: >> On 13/08/2016 05:50, Doug Schepers wrote: >>> I'd like to hear a more concrete explanation of why interactivity >>> in <img> must be disallowed. ... >> *IF* you wanted to add something interactive inside an <img>, >> you'dneed to signal this with at least >> the addition of a different role="..." attribute >> (and then change user agent behavior, which would assume <img> is >> non-interactive, so presumably doesn't cater for focusability >> etc). >> But this still feels like a conceptual stretch... > > Yup! And it's a completely *unnecessary* stretch, because HTML > *already* has elements that indicate interactive embedding of > resources: <iframe> and <object>! There's zero need to fiddle with > <img>'s semantics. If you'll read the original thread, you'll see that the issue is more subtle than that. Many sites and services only use <img> because it bypasses the security problems that using <object> or <iframe> would introduce. In terms of user-expected behavior, most users are familiar with image maps, where there is interactivity (specifically, link navigation); to them, it doesn't matter if the link is specified in the HTML file or the image file, they only know the UI behavior. Similarly, CSS ::hover effects seem like interactivity on the image to users. Allowing certain kinds of interactivity in <img>, such as link navigation or declarative animation (like ::hover) or text selection, but not script execution, would continue to match user and author expectations about security and behavior, while also allowing more interesting options for SVG images. Regards– Doug
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