[html5] r8079 - [e] (0) Context menus: try to find a middle ground between what authors want (fu [...]

[whatwg at whatwg.org]

Author: ianh
Date: 2013-07-23 12:53:00 -0700 (Tue, 23 Jul 2013)
New Revision: 8079

Modified:
   complete.html
   index
   source
Log:
[e] (0) Context menus: try to find a middle ground between what authors want (full control over the experience) and what users want (full control over their experience).
Affected topics: HTML

Modified: complete.html
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--- complete.html	2013-07-23 01:56:31 UTC (rev 8078)
+++ complete.html	2013-07-23 19:53:00 UTC (rev 8079)
@@ -57192,7 +57192,10 @@
 
   <p>The user agent may also provide access to its default context menu, if any, with the context
   menu shown. For example, it could merge the menu items from the two menus together, or provide the
-  page's context menu as a submenu of the default menu.</p>
+  page's context menu as a submenu of the default menu. In general, user agents are encouraged to
+  de-emphasize their own contextual menu items, so as to give the author's context menu the
+  appearance of legitimacy — to allow documents to feel like "applications" rather than "mere
+  Web pages".</p>
 
   <p>User agents may provide means for bypassing the context menu processing model, ensuring that
   the user can always access the UA's default context menus. For example, the user agent could

Modified: index
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--- index	2013-07-23 01:56:31 UTC (rev 8078)
+++ index	2013-07-23 19:53:00 UTC (rev 8079)
@@ -57192,7 +57192,10 @@
 
   <p>The user agent may also provide access to its default context menu, if any, with the context
   menu shown. For example, it could merge the menu items from the two menus together, or provide the
-  page's context menu as a submenu of the default menu.</p>
+  page's context menu as a submenu of the default menu. In general, user agents are encouraged to
+  de-emphasize their own contextual menu items, so as to give the author's context menu the
+  appearance of legitimacy — to allow documents to feel like "applications" rather than "mere
+  Web pages".</p>
 
   <p>User agents may provide means for bypassing the context menu processing model, ensuring that
   the user can always access the UA's default context menus. For example, the user agent could

Modified: source
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--- source	2013-07-23 01:56:31 UTC (rev 8078)
+++ source	2013-07-23 19:53:00 UTC (rev 8079)
@@ -63263,7 +63263,10 @@
 
   <p>The user agent may also provide access to its default context menu, if any, with the context
   menu shown. For example, it could merge the menu items from the two menus together, or provide the
-  page's context menu as a submenu of the default menu.</p>
+  page's context menu as a submenu of the default menu. In general, user agents are encouraged to
+  de-emphasize their own contextual menu items, so as to give the author's context menu the
+  appearance of legitimacy — to allow documents to feel like "applications" rather than "mere
+  Web pages".</p>
 
   <p>User agents may provide means for bypassing the context menu processing model, ensuring that
   the user can always access the UA's default context menus. For example, the user agent could