The current Firefox implementation via a context-menu item (presumably
available to screen readers) seems innocuous to me. While I agree with many
of the points objecting to the spec, I don't see much upside for us (and
plenty of downside) to deprecating the feature without a counter-proposal.

--Jet

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2015-01-06 6:13 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
>
>> (I'm not happy about this spec; for a good description of why, see
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2014Aug/0028.html .
>> I'm also under the impression that they're using Mozilla's
>> "implementation" of it as support for the spec, which is rather
>> galling considering that a big piece of what led to that
>> implementation was an online harrassment campaign against a Mozilla
>> UX designer to get the feature accepted.  I'm not sure how much it's
>> worth fighting it at this point, although probably a first step in
>> that fight would be to remove our implementation.)
>>
>
> Is there any reason to not remove our implementation?
>
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