Re: comments

Hi Jim,

your comments reach us right after the WG decided to take the =
specification to CR, but thankfully I was a bit slow with the editing so =
that we could take them into account :)

On May 27, 2010, at 22:42 , Jim Allan wrote:
> View-mode: fullscreen. It is not clear whether fullscreen includes a =
full
> set of chrome, or includes no chrome.  You mention 'chrome' in the
> 'windowed' and 'floating' viewmodes. For consistency, chrome presence =
should
> be noted in fullscreen.

That's correct, I've now clarified this by adding a mention of chrome =
for both fullscreen and maximized.

> It should be noted that the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 =
[1] has
> success criteria that allow the user to override author settings for a
> variety of viewport view-modes including the inclusion/exclusion of
> 'chrome.'

Yes, and that's fine. The idea here is that the UA would make a best =
effort at matching the intent in a way that makes sense rather than be =
ultra strict. For instance, if the app goes fullscreen but keeps a teeny =
bit of chrome (at user option or not) to make it easier to exit =
fullscreen, then matching the view-mode: fullscreen media query is quite =
clearly the right thing to do.

> Please consider including a statement such as
> "The user agent *must* display the view-modes in a manner that meets =
the
> accessibility guidelines of UAAG20. "

As much as I'd like more UAs to support UAAG I don't think that this =
requirement is appropriate here. The VM specification defines a =
technology with a single purpose: "if the window in which the content is =
being rendered is like this, then apply these CSS style rules". It does =
*not* define how a UA ought to display an actual set of window states, =
it doesn't in fact even require UAs to support all the view modes. I'd =
expect that an application running on an iPhone would only support =
maximized and fullscreen =97 if it applied different style rules for =
each, it would still be 100% conformant.

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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/