[whatwg] hit regions: limited set of elements for fallback content

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > So far, it seems like to support grids in canvas, we need:
> >
> >  - enable table-related elements (table, td, tfoot, etc) to be hit region
> >    controls. (exclude col and colgroup)

Filed this as: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24750

> >  - fire an event on an element when the user agent (possibly because of a
> >    request from the AT, but not necessarily) wants to scroll to an
> >    element; default action is to actually scroll.
> >  - when this event is fired on a canvas, include the region information.

Filed this as: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24748

> > ...and to support list boxes, we need:
> >
> >  - enable <select multiple> elements to be hit region controls.
> >  - enable <select size=N> eements where N>1 to be hit region controls.
> >  - enable <option> to be hit region controls.
> >  - optionally, if implementors are on board:
> >     - make <select size=1> in <canvas> act like size=N where N>1.
> >     - enable <select size=1> elements to be hit region controls.

Filed this as: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24749


> > What's your take on the <select> thing; should we have a special case 
> > in browsers for size=1, or should we require size>1?
> 
> I can't think of a way to make size=1 work, so requiring size>1 may be 
> the only option. It seems ugly, though.

The way we could make it work would be to change the logic in the <select> 
so that when it's in a canvas, it's a list box and not a drop-down. But 
that might be more confusing than requiring that people set size=2? I 
guess I'll just punt on this for now and we'll see whether authors get 
confused or not.

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