Re: [webkit-dev] Adding element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Ryosuke Niwa
I don’t think we should implement this feature in WebKit until the standards discussion settles. It’s very controversial at the moment. I also agree with Ojan and Hixie that authors are very likely going to misuse this element. - R. Niwa On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Steve Faulkner wrote: >

[webkit-dev] RESEND: Fwd: Adding element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Steve Faulkner
resending in plain text as previous email was cutoff On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, ian hickson wrote: > ARIA is used by very few authors, and those authors are, by and large, > much more competent than average. ARIA therefore tends to be used to a > much higher level of quality than most elements. Th

Re: [webkit-dev] Fwd: Adding element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Brendan Eich
I'm stunned that people are arguing this on webkit-dev. Just FYI, Mozillians with whom I have spoken generally agree that does not meet the high bar required to add a new element to HTML. Shopping a patch to implementors, to get something into a standard spec by asserting de-facto status bas

Re: [webkit-dev] Fwd: Adding element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Steve Faulkner
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, ian hickson wrote: > > ARIA is used by very few authors, and those authors are, by and large, > much more competent than average. ARIA therefore tends to be used to a > much higher level of quality than most elements. > The claim that developers that use ARIA are much more

Re: [webkit-dev] Fwd: Adding element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Dominic Mazzoni
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > The use case for is accessibility navigation. If authors use it > incorrectly, the feature *doesn't work*. The element becomes pointless. > But it won't break accessibility. Worst case, it starts the screen reader user at an unusual point in

Re: [webkit-dev] Fwd: Adding element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > > > I've not seen any place where @role=main was misused and I think the > > > same would be the case for . > > > > ARIA is used by very few a

Re: [webkit-dev] Fwd: Adding element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > I've not seen any place where @role=main was misused and I think the > > same would be the case for . > > ARIA is used by very few authors, and those authors are, by and large, > much more c

Re: [webkit-dev] Fwd: Adding element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > I've not seen any place where @role=main was misused and I think the > same would be the case for . ARIA is used by very few authors, and those authors are, by and large, much more competent than average. ARIA therefore tends to be used to a much

Re: [webkit-dev] Adding element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Ojan Vafai
As I said on the thread you link to, I don't think this element addresses any real use-cases. I think people are far too likely to misuse this for it to be useful for things like readability to use. If Apple really wants this, I won't object, but my preference would be to not implement this. On

[webkit-dev] Fwd: Adding element to WebCore

2012-11-27 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
I tried to analyse the use cases here: http://blog.gingertech.net/2012/11/28/the-use-cases-for-a-main-element-in-html/ I've not seen any place where @role=main was misused and I think the same would be the case for . At least I don't see why it would be misused any more than the other semantic ele

Re: [webkit-dev] How to switch on MultiSampling for accelerated 2D Canvas?

2012-11-27 Thread Tom Hudson
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Kui Zheng wrote: > Hi, > I was trying to accelerate path filling using stencil buffer, For > antialiasing, we rely on GPU multisampling. > So, I want to know Does webkit support Multisampling for accelerated > 2D Canvas? how to switch on it? > Thanks for you help.

[webkit-dev] How to switch on MultiSampling for accelerated 2D Canvas?

2012-11-27 Thread Kui Zheng
Hi, I was trying to accelerate path filling using stencil buffer, For antialiasing, we rely on GPU multisampling. So, I want to know Does webkit support Multisampling for accelerated 2D Canvas? how to switch on it? Thanks for you help. Regards, -Kui ___