Re: Deprecating XUL in new UI

2017-01-23 Thread David Bolter
Hi all, so as not to leave this hanging: On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: > Am 16/01/2017 um 21:43 schrieb Dave Townsend: > >> >> What other features do we depend on in XUL that I haven't listed? >> >> > Accessibility? Not sure how big the difference is there between XUL and >

Re: Deprecating XUL in new UI

2017-01-23 Thread David Bolter
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > > On 1/16/17 4:28 PM, Matthew N. wrote: > > > >> Does it just work from XHTML documents? > >> > > > > Yes, as far as I know. > > > > Is our implementation of Web Components ready to

Re: Creating a content process during shutdown...

2017-09-21 Thread David Bolter
Hi Gabor, I'm interested in shutdown issues. Is there a bug # for this case? Cheers, D On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:08 AM, Gabor Krizsanits wrote: > I guess the question is how do you define "after we've entered shutdown". > > For the preallocated process manager both "profile-change-teardown" and

Performance issue on 57 with some a11y clients

2017-11-28 Thread David Bolter
Hi folks, As you may have heard, some users on 57 are experiencing performance problems due to third party clients that are interacting poorly with Firefox accessibility. We have been able to reproduce only one case (Realplayer) and need more. So here’s what we are asking. If you use Windows can

ARIA implementation plans (was Re: W3C Proposed Recommendations: WAI-ARIA and Core Accessibility API Mappings)

2017-11-30 Thread David Bolter
Hi Tantek, I spun this off the rec proposals thread as per your suggestion. On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 4:10 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > > [snip] > Two things: > > 1. Do we have an Intent to Implement / Ship for the full testable > feature s

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendations: WAI-ARIA and Core Accessibility API Mappings

2017-11-30 Thread David Bolter
Hi Jonathan, On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Jonathan Kingston wrote: > > *Thoughts* > We should ensure ARIA provides clear justification for any other roles that > already have HTML representation. > I'm pretty sceptical of ARIA helping Accessibility. I think there is more > impact when assist

IMEs can instantiate accessibility (was Re: INTENT TO DEPRECATE (taskcluster l10n routing))

2017-12-04 Thread David Bolter
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: > Am 04.12.17 um 05:42 schrieb Jet Villegas: > >> >> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 05:15 Axel Hecht > l...@mozilla.com>> wrote: >> >> Am 01.12.17 um 16:45 schrieb Justin Wood: >> > Hey Everyone, >> >> [snip] I hope we can change that (testing on

Intent to ship: Retained Display Lists (rollout plan)

2018-06-19 Thread David Bolter
Hi All, Retained Display Lists (RDL) will be enabled for release-channel users in Firefox 61, with a gradual rollout [1]. - RDL will be initially disabled for all users, then 2 days after FF61 go-live, we push RDL to 25% of users. - We then monitor for a week, then push RDL to 50% of use

Re: ARIA membership and role="password"

2016-06-02 Thread David Bolter
Hi Johnathan, Our lack of direct W3C ARIA involvement recently is mainly due to time/resource constraints and we have influence via proxy. I think ARIA is best scoped as passive semantics used to describe the reality of how web developers (ab)use HTML. It is not unreasonable to argue that ARIA, b

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendations: WAI-ARIA (accessibility)

2014-02-25 Thread david bolter
I support this W3C Recommendation. Cheers, David On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 2:22 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > W3C recently published the following proposed recommendations (the > stage before W3C's final stage, Recommendation): > > Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0 > http://w

Re: Input Delay Metric proposal

2018-09-20 Thread David Bolter
[cc+ Heather for perceived performance] Hi Randell, I think I like this and I'm glad you are thinking about it. Measuring time between TTI and FCP seems useful to me. You touched on a bunch of my questions in the Issues section and I don't have answers but others might? :) Cheers, David On We

Re: [ann] Slides from Mozilla Android Bootcamp presentation

2019-07-07 Thread David Bolter
Thank you Nick! This is going to be an enduring resource! D On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 5:34 PM Nicholas Alexander wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:08 AM Nicholas Alexander < > nalexan...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:19 AM Nicholas Alexander < > > nalex