I have a hard time justifying an entire point release for one state. Are
there other things people would want to add?

Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group



From:   Pete Brunet <[email protected]>
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Date:   11/23/2010 09:43 AM
Subject:        Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IA2_STATE_PINNED
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How much of a churn would it be to add a new state constant?  We could do a
minor release, i.e. from 1.2 to 1.2.1 to add that constant.
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Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:




      Rich Schwerdtfeger
      CTO Accessibility Software Group

      [email protected] wrote on
      11/18/2010 04:29:54 PM:

      > From: James Teh <[email protected]>
      > To: IAccessible2 mailing list
      <[email protected]>
      > Date: 11/18/2010 04:31 PM
      > Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IA2_STATE_PINNED
      > Sent by: [email protected]
      >
      > On 19/11/2010 8:18 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
      > > For a state you have to run the IDL again. I am not arguing that
      we
      > > should not provide a provision for pinned but I would like to
      avoid the
      > > churn.
      > Makes sense. I'd be happy to support it as an object attribute if
      it is
      > endorsed by the IA2 spec. That said, it sets a precedent we may not
      want
      > to set; i.e. that all new states will become object attributes.
      Among
      > other things, this adds to the many object attributes that already
      > exist, and since there's no way yet to retrieve specific object
      > attributes, this is going to get very nasty sooner or later.
      >
      I understand. I also would like it to be endorsed by the IA2 spec
      too. All these attributes need to be documented.

      > Jamie
      >
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      > NV Access Inc, ABN 61773362390
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