The main downside I see is a potential "Mozilla removes features used by disabled people..." PR fiasco. I think we can avoid that with a better proposal that we do support.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Gavin Sharp <[email protected]> wrote: > What downsides do you see? > > Gavin > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Jet Villegas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The current Firefox implementation via a context-menu item (presumably > > available to screen readers) seems innocuous to me. While I agree with > many > > of the points objecting to the spec, I don't see much upside for us (and > > plenty of downside) to deprecating the feature without a > counter-proposal. > > > > --Jet > > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> On 2015-01-06 6:13 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > >> > >>> (I'm not happy about this spec; for a good description of why, see > >>> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2014Aug/0028.html . > >>> I'm also under the impression that they're using Mozilla's > >>> "implementation" of it as support for the spec, which is rather > >>> galling considering that a big piece of what led to that > >>> implementation was an online harrassment campaign against a Mozilla > >>> UX designer to get the feature accepted. I'm not sure how much it's > >>> worth fighting it at this point, although probably a first step in > >>> that fight would be to remove our implementation.) > >>> > >> > >> Is there any reason to not remove our implementation? > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev-platform mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
