On Wednesday 2015-01-07 12:19 +0100, Marco Zehe wrote: > On 07.01.2015 06:09, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Jet Villegas <jville...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> The main downside I see is a potential "Mozilla removes features used by > >> disabled people..." PR fiasco. I think we can avoid that with a better > >> proposal that we do support. > > Maybe Marco Zehe would be interested in removing it :-). > > I actually am not. ;) The reason is not that I care about this feature. > I honestly don't. But the noise that is to be expected from "interested > parties" if we remove the feature is going to suck so much unnecessary > energy that the cost calculation is clearly tilted towards just leaving > it in. > > Besides: It does give us a competitive advantage over other browsers in > the academic space and whereever other space longdesc may be used, or > start being used once it is officially sanctioned by the W3C. Remember > in accessibility world, the W3C word weighs much more than some on this > list might think.
It's been officially sanctioned by the W3C since 1998: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/struct/objects.html#adef-longdesc-IMG and that hasn't led to useful content using it. > We could have decided to support Apple's formal complaint to longdesc > when they published it in August[1], but we didn't. I didn't care enough > to waste energy on it, and those who now speak out against the feature > didn't appear to care much back then, either. So TBL rejected Apple's > complaint, and the extension moved to the state it is at now. In hindsight, I probably should have supported it, but I didn't want to get involved. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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