Hi Aaron, Replying to a message from Aaron which didn't have the lists cc'ed.
As Steve has brought up separately, this might indeed fit into the D-BUS AT-SPI migration work. It doesn't seem terribly complex to add this small thing that will have nice benefit (like what T.V. points out). @Will Walker, we could maybe touch on this Monday night at 10 ;) Are there any objections to all this? cheers, David Aaron Leventhal wrote: > In Firefox, there's a lot of code that doesn't need to run, and a lot > of objects don't need to be created, when a11y isn't needed. > > Please, add lazy instantiation for accessibility. Would it fit to do > this in the D-BUS AT-SPI migration project? > > - Aaron > > > On 10/22/2008 8:35 PM, David Bolter wrote: >> This is a common pattern. I hear it is also true for other things in FF >> like dom mutation events.... only fire if there is a listener... makes a >> lot of sense. >> >> A tree should only fall in the forest if someone is listening.<grin> >> >> D >> Aaron Leventhal wrote: >> >>> Mario, on Windows we use lazy instantiation. There is no need for an >>> "enable a11y" flag in the OS. Just the fact that something asks us for >>> an accessible object wakes us up. We get a WM_GETOBJECT event -- and >>> before that a11y is not loaded. >>> >>> We really need lazy instantiation like that under Gnome. If the AT is >>> loaded and starts asking us for objects, then we can wake up. >>> >>> - Aaron >>> >>> _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
