[webkit-dev] Adding ENABLE_CSS_DIRECTIONAL_FOCUS to WebCore.

[Mario Sanchez Prada]

Hi,

For the sake of completeness, I'd like to mention that this feature is also
used in the Hbbtv browser shipped with Samsung TVs, as Giuseppe Pascale from
Opera already pointed out in a recent discussion[1].

That, together with what it was mentioned about the SmartTV Alliance using
it, means that pretty much the whole TV world is relying quite a bit on this
thing nowadays, so it would be great if we could have it integrated and
supported upstream.

That being said, we at the Samsung would be happy to support this feature
actively in WebKit, both by helping with the patch that's already in
Bugzilla [2] *and* maintaining it in at least one port. Should that be the
case, the obvious choice for us would be the WebKitGTK port, since that's
what we currently have on our TVs.

Problem is that the patch in [2] is quite old already (Jan 2012), so it
would be awesome if Kyounga Ra attached a newer version of it, since that
one depends on some parts that are now deprecated or simply refactored in
some way, as I could check today while experimenting with it on top of
latest WebKit [3].

Last, regarding to tests, just to mention that Opera has recently submitted
tests for this feature (see [4]). This would be IMHO another good point to
keep in mind here, since we could import them in WebKit too.

What do you think?
Mario

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jun/0332.html
[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66027
[3]
https://github.com/mariospr/webkit/commit/5bda577699599aa4f99192380b46ad73e5
ea1672
[4]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-css-testsuite/2013Jul/0004.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org [mailto:webkit-dev-
> bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula
> Sent: 24 July 2013 14:52
> To: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Adding ENABLE_CSS_DIRECTIONAL_FOCUS to
> WebCore.
> 
> On 07/23/2013 09:26 PM, Kyounga Ra wrote:
> > -Which browsers are shipping the feature?
> > -Which browsers are planning to ship the feature?
> > A) other major browsers? opera presto
> >     also Webkit-based TV browsers support it.
> >
> > -Is it a mature standard (or an amazing feature) that one of the
> > WebKit ports wants to maintain?
> > A) not matured yet. but these properties are widely used by the TV
> > industry.
> >      TV industry people like me want to maintain.
> >
> 
> nav-[dir] is a required part of the SmartTV Alliance spec, so it's
> probably being used by Phillips, LG and Toshiba TVs.
> 
> Danilo Cesar
> 
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