On 10/21/2017 11:45 PM, Yura Zenevich wrote:
I would also like to bring to the team's attention another force worth
being on the radar (in terms of "forces on the system") - accessibility.
One theme that seems to consistently happen with re-writes such as the ones
from xul to React is regressions in terms of accessibility of newly
re-written components.
Yeah, this is important. I would imagine custom elements in XUL (which might
then internally use shadow DOM too) would implement the same
a11y interfaces what XBL implements now.
thanks,
yura
On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Philipp Kewisch <mozi...@kewis.ch> wrote:
On 10/20/17 7:47 PM, Dave Townsend wrote:
For some time now we've been talking about moving away from XUL and XBL.
The browser architecture team has been hard at work figuring out how to
go
about doing that and we're ready to share the first of our proposals more
widely. We have developed a plan to remove XBL from Firefox. It's been
through a successful design review with some of the key engineers and now
is the time for more comments if you have them. We're planning to start
some
of the work this quarter with it really ramping up next quarter.
Take a look at the plan
<https://mozilla.github.io/firefox-browser-architecture/
text/0007-xbl-design-review-packet.html>
and let us know what you think. There are a couple of areas where we are
still investigating concerns:
I very much welcome this plan, especially the fact that Web Components
is part of the replacement. Last time I asked, it sounded like Web
Components was still on the way of being reimplemented and pending some
spec work. In following the webcomponents bug I see there has been
constant progress.
Nevertheless, I'd appreciate if someone could comment on how far along
the Web Components implementation is. Is it now following the agreed
upon version of the spec (I suspect yes), and is the implementation
stable enough that you would consider it ready to ship? What is the next
big milestone for Web Components?
Thunderbird/Lightning uses a lot of XBL components as well that I would
love to get rid of, I am looking forward to making things more
compatible with the future.
Thanks,
Philipp
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