Comments on: Internet Apps Roadmap – Questions http://alastairc.ac/2006/10/aria-roadmap-questions/ Kything web interactions Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dotjay http://alastairc.ac/2006/10/aria-roadmap-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-1945 dotjay Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:10:04 +0000 http://alastairc.ac/2006/10/aria-roadmap-questions/#comment-1945 I don't think you sound critical - questions are good. :) I don’t think you sound critical – questions are good. :)

]]> By: AlastairC http://alastairc.ac/2006/10/aria-roadmap-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-1898 AlastairC Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:49:18 +0000 http://alastairc.ac/2006/10/aria-roadmap-questions/#comment-1898 Agreed, I don't mean to sound critical, these are minor points/questions in the scheme of things, and I will be digging through the links & current implementations soon. Agreed, I don’t mean to sound critical, these are minor points/questions in the scheme of things, and I will be digging through the links & current implementations soon.

]]> By: dotjay http://alastairc.ac/2006/10/aria-roadmap-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-1887 dotjay Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:17:18 +0000 http://alastairc.ac/2006/10/aria-roadmap-questions/#comment-1887 Perhaps they meant "evaluate" and not "enumerate". Hmm... I think ARIA is taking baby steps. I think they want to do it right and taking the time to think ahead - after all, it is a roadmap. :) We can't help that IE7 and less doesn't support XHTML as application/xhtml+xml, but we can hope that support will come in the future. You have to bear in mind as well, that (as far as I know) Firefox 1.5 is the only browser with some support for roles and states at the moment. <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-aria-roadmap-20060921/#support_ua" rel="nofollow">Section 4.6 of the ARIA</a> through to <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-aria-roadmap-20060921/#implementations" rel="nofollow">4.11 Implementations</a> makes useful reading. Perhaps they meant “evaluate” and not “enumerate”. Hmm…

I think ARIA is taking baby steps. I think they want to do it right and taking the time to think ahead – after all, it is a roadmap. :)

We can’t help that IE7 and less doesn’t support XHTML as application/xhtml+xml, but we can hope that support will come in the future. You have to bear in mind as well, that (as far as I know) Firefox 1.5 is the only browser with some support for roles and states at the moment. Section 4.6 of the ARIA through to 4.11 Implementations makes useful reading.

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