[whatwg] activedescendant in viewport (Re: scrollIntoView jarring?)

2008-05-02 Thread David Bolter
Hi Rich, activedescendant: Great. If it will work for us, I feel better relying on the user agent for bringing active descendants into view. I thought we were going to require the DHTML author to perform a scroll of some kind? If not, great, and I agree it would appear to be a akin to

Re: [whatwg] activedescendant in viewport (Re: scrollIntoView jarring?)

2008-05-02 Thread David Bolter
Replying to myself below... David Bolter wrote: Hi Rich, activedescendant: Great. If it will work for us, I feel better relying on the user agent for bringing active descendants into view. I thought we were going to require the DHTML author to perform a scroll of some kind? If not, great,

Re: [whatwg] activedescendant in viewport (Re: scrollIntoView jarring?)

2008-05-02 Thread Aaron Leventhal
I think if there is an attribute like this which also scrolls for you, then it should be called activedescendant, not aria-activedescendant. I don't see a problem if HTML 5 wants the attribute without aria- to drive browser behavior. In that case perhaps it should style the active descendant