Hi Shaun, A quick note about WebKit and ARIA inline below:
Shaun McCance wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 12:40 -0500, Willie Walker wrote: > >> I'm retitling this because I was just deleting GSOC mail -- my inbox is >> flooding and I needed to do some drastic filtering. Many thanks to >> Behdad for seeing this message and thinking of me. :-) >> >> For HTML accessibility, the best support is provided by the Gecko engine >> that's in Firefox 3. We've worked very closely with Mozilla on this >> work, and we have pretty decent support for emerging web technologies >> like AJAX/ARIA/LiveRegions as a result. It was a VERY significant effort. >> > > Thanks for the info, Willie. This is very good to hear. > Most of us are fairly ignorant of what's happening in the > accessibility world. > > >> If anyone is doing any sophisticated presentation of web content, I'd >> really recommend they use the Gecko engine that FF3 uses, and I'm happy >> to hear this is on the Yelp radar screen. I just cannot imagine the >> effort it will take to add full a11y support to some other HTML widget. >> > > Well, that's a disheartening potential blow against WebKit. > A few days ago I added some Google SOC task ideas on this :) http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/wiki/Google%20Summer%20of%20Code%202008 Note I link from this page to the stagnating ARIA bug ticket on WebKit: http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12132 Feel free to chime in :) cheers, David > Yeah, I know, I know. Why use WebKit when we already have > Gecko? Well, in the roughly three and a half years since we > introduced Gecko to Yelp (which, by the way, caused a huge > accessibility stink at the time), it still has yet to produce > something that looks like a real API. Using Gecko feels like > surgically extracting pieces of another application to make > some sort of monstrous Frankenapp. > > History has shown that good APIs breed good applications. If > you put something like WebKit, something with a sane API and > lots of functionality, into our stack, hitherto unforeseen > applications and features will begin to bubble up. There is > a gaping whole in our developer platform that Gecko should > have filled years ago. I don't know why it failed to, but > I do know that WebKit is showing more promise at this point. > > -- > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
