Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Florian Bösch pya...@gmail.com wrote: I would propose to centralize this and make it an up-front dialog remembered for a site such that: That kind of bulk approach does not work. Users don't understand what's going on. (This has been discussed in the past too, I

Re: Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Florian Bösch pya...@gmail.com wrote: I would propose to centralize this and make it an up-front dialog remembered for a site such that: That kind of bulk approach does not work. Users don't understand what's going on. To what extent are we sure users

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Florian Bösch
You suggest a bulk up front permission dialog doesn't work, whereas pinging the user at random intervals with a popup does? On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Florian Bösch pya...@gmail.com wrote: I would propose to

Re: Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:48:33 +0100, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen hallv...@opera.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Florian Bösch pya...@gmail.com wrote: I would propose to centralize this and make it an up-front dialog remembered for a site such that: (Your proposal is

Re: Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Florian Bösch
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Charles McCathie Nevile cha...@yandex-team.ru wrote: That kind of bulk approach does not work. Users don't understand what's going on. That's what research shows. To be fair, we've generally presented the options in ways that are over-technical. This

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 2/1/13 6:30 AM, ext Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: Yep. There was some security work done a few years ago specifically looking at the sort of things that users understood, which recommended that for security it is helpful to have consistent presentation across browser UI. Florian - FYI, I

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Florian Bösch
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.comwrote: Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and Use Cases http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/**NOTE-wsc-usecases-20080306/http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-wsc-usecases-20080306/ Yeah, has anybody actually even read

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Florian Bösch
Section 9.4.3 Poor usability of dialog boxes Desktop software commonly reports problems through modal pop-up dialog boxes. Such dialog boxes frequently appear during normal software use. Also, the user is frequently given no reasonable course of action other than clicking the OK button.

Re: Proposal: moving tests to GitHub

2013-02-01 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 2/1/13 2:04 AM, ext Tobie Langel wrote: On 1/31/13 9:13 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: As I said during one of the testing breakouts in Lyon, ultimately I suspect the saying beggars can't be choosy will trump. However, AFAIK, currently, only one of WebApps' thirty active

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:59:35 +0100, Florian Bösch pya...@gmail.com wrote:On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and Use Cases http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-wsc-usecases-20080306/Yeah, has anybody actually

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Florian Bösch
I don't propose writing into a specification how the dialog would look like. There does need to be a specification however on the API that developers can use to indicate an applications desire to use any of the dozen or so restricted APIs. On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Charles McCathie Nevile

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Florian Bösch
More precedent http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/download/attachments/151094600/android-install.jpg On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Florian Bösch pya...@gmail.com wrote: The idea is to allow vendors to improve their UX (if they're so inclined) by allowing developers (if they're so inclined) to use

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
OK, I think I'm getting this now.On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:39:34 +0100, Florian Bösch pya...@gmail.com wrote:The idea is to allow vendors to improve their UX (if they're so inclined) by allowing developers (if they're so inclined) to use a central, up front API. For lack of a better term let's dummy

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Florian Bösch
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Charles McCathie Nevile cha...@yandex-team.ru wrote: ** Right now vendors look at a page and can often heurisitically generate a permission request that is either consolidated, or depends on actual usage. A heuristic is fine but, it only goes so far. First of

Re: Proposal: moving tests to GitHub

2013-02-01 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 1/31/13 3:18 PM, ext Rebecca Hauck wrote: Yes I submitted a batch of tests from TestTWF some time after the Paris event. OK, thanks for this clarification (I just noticed your submissions for IDB and DOMEvents). Sorry Odin for having missed those! Since I'm not in the webapps working

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Florian Bösch
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Adrienne Porter Felt adriennef...@gmail.com wrote: My user research on Android found that people have a hard time connecting upfront permission requests to the application feature that needs the permission. This meant that people have no real basis by which to

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:16:04 +0100, Florian Bösch pya...@gmail.com wrote:On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Adrienne Porter Felt adriennef...@gmail.com wrote: My user research on Android found that people have a hard timeconnecting upfront permission requests to the application feature that needs

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Florian Bösch
Repetitive permission dialog popups at random UI-flows will not solve the permission fatique any more than a centralized one does. However a centralized permission dialog will solve the following things fairly effectively: - repeated popup fatique - extension of trust towards a site regardless of

Inviting your review of IndieUI Events

2013-02-01 Thread Janina Sajka
Dear HTML, Web Apps, and Pointer Events Working Groups: As you may know, the IndieUI Working Group recently published the First Public Working Draft of IndieUI: Events technical specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-indie-ui-events-20130122/ IndieUI defines a way for different user

RE: Re: Keyboard events for accessible RIAs and Games

2013-02-01 Thread Travis Leithead
I think we should give it another try by including it in our UI Events spec. I like the idea of adding the static queryKeyCap(code) API to Keyboard events. I wonder about the name though. A key capability doesn't sound right. Are we querying for a key's locale name? e.g.,

Re: Re: Keyboard events for accessible RIAs and Games

2013-02-01 Thread Florian Bösch
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Travis Leithead travis.leith...@microsoft.com wrote: A key capability doesn't sound right. Are we querying for a key's locale name? e.g., queryKeyLocaleName(code)? Well, the keys locales primary symbol for that keyboard key if the key is printable. There's

Re: Re: Keyboard events for accessible RIAs and Games

2013-02-01 Thread Кошмарчик
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Travis Leithead travis.leith...@microsoft.com wrote: I think we should give it another try by including it in our UI Events spec. I like the idea of adding the static queryKeyCap(code) API to Keyboard events. I wonder about the name though. A key capability

Re: Proposal: moving tests to GitHub

2013-02-01 Thread Tobie Langel
On 2/1/13 5:52 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: On 1/31/13 3:18 PM, ext Rebecca Hauck wrote: Since I'm not in the webapps working group, I had to first get access to the repository. I was told that that to get write access, I (probably) had to join the working group [1]. Yes, it

Re: Proposal: moving tests to GitHub

2013-02-01 Thread Tobie Langel
On 2/1/13 4:23 AM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@nokia.com wrote: One of things I wondering about is - after you leave your Fellow position [BTW, that's totally wicked so congrats on that!], and Robin has moved on to `greener pastures` and Odin has moved on to be CEO of Opera - if/when there are

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Florian Bösch pya...@gmail.com wrote: I would propose to centralize this and make it an up-front dialog remembered for a site such that: That kind of bulk approach does not work.

Re: Allow ... centralized dialog up front

2013-02-01 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:29:16 +0100, Florian Bösch pya...@gmail.com wrote:Repetitive permission dialog popups at random UI-flows will not solve the permission fatique any more than a centralized one does. However a centralized permission dialog will solve the following things fairly effectively: -