Re: WebKit and GNOME

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs apple com>]

On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Bolter wrote:
>
> > Hi Maciej,
> >
> > Thanks very much for providing this information. I have a brief
> > comment about your accessibility section below:
> >
> >
> > This wording "Sometimes ARIA is mentioned in the context of
> > accessibility - this is an interesting technology for future web
> > apps" doesn't seem quite right to me. ARIA enabled browsers such as
> > Firefox provide access to ARIA enabled DHTML applications today.
> > Opera and IE8 are adding support today. Google is putting ARIA into
> > its web applications.
>
> So far as I know, there isn't any major web app yet that is already
> using ARIA. I would appreciate correction on this front if I have
> missed anything.

By the way, just to be clear, I do not mean to imply that ARIA is not  
an important technology, or that it is "far future". Just that, in my  
estimation, basic accessibility integration is much more beneficial to  
users, in the short to medium term. (ARIA will probably be quite  
feasible to implement in a cross-platform way once the basic  
accessibility code is cross-platform.)

It is up to the GNOME project of course whether you will attach any  
specific feature requirements to accepting WebKit as an external  
dependency.

Regards,
Maciej