IRC log of ua on 2009-03-05

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title: UAWG telecon
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Chair: Jim Allan
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Agenda+ Logistics (Regrets, agenda requests, comments)? US summer time
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Agenda+ WAI-ARIA last call review deadline mid April (take up after CSUN)
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Agenda+ Poll - need F2F at November TPAC meeting in Santa Clara, CA
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Agenda+ Review WAI-ALT attribute proposal (HTML5) - tentative
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Agenda+ Survey Results http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/36791/20090223/ (UA definition and expansion)
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Agenda+ Web security last call http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wsc-ui-20090226/ March 19 deadline
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+[Microsoft]
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zakim, microsoft is kford
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+kford; got it
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+??P2
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-??P2
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+??P2
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+AllanJ
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zakim, code?
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the conference code is 82941 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), jeanne
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+Mark_Hakkinen
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+??P8
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zakim, ??P8 is sharper
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+sharper; got it
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+Jeanne
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zakim, code?
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the conference code is 82941 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.89.06.34.99 tel:+44.117.370.6152), JR
18:01:10 [jeanne]
zakim, who is here?
18:01:10 [Zakim]
On the phone I see kford, ??P2, AllanJ, Mark_Hakkinen, sharper, Jeanne
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On IRC I see JR, jeanne, mhakkinen, sharper, Henny, KFord, RRSAgent, Zakim, AllanJ, trackbot
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+[IPcaller]
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zakim, [IPcaller] is really JR
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+JR; got it
18:02:09 [jeanne]
zakim,P2 is Henny
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sorry, jeanne, I do not recognize a party named 'P2'
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zakim, ??P2
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I don't understand '??P2', jeanne
18:02:40 [jeanne]
zakim, ??P2 is really Henny
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+Henny; got it
18:02:43 [AllanJ]
agenda?
18:02:48 [jeanne]
zakim, who is here?
18:02:59 [Zakim]
On the phone I see kford, Henny, AllanJ, Mark_Hakkinen, sharper, Jeanne, JR
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On IRC I see JR, jeanne, mhakkinen, sharper, Henny, KFord, RRSAgent, Zakim, AllanJ, trackbot
18:03:19 [JR]
Scribe: JR
18:03:45 [JR]
Regrets: Alan C., Judy B.
18:04:03 [KFord]
s/cna/can
18:05:10 [JR]
JA: Discussing time change for next week
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JS: Best to consult world clock
18:05:58 [jeanne]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html
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JA: Other thing is ARIA last call
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JA: Not needed till mid-April
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JA: We will take that up after CSUN
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JS: THere is a whole separate ARIA User Agnet doc we should look at
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JA: OK
18:07:06 [jeanne]
zakim, who is making noise?
18:07:17 [Zakim]
jeanne, listening for 11 seconds I heard sound from the following: AllanJ (32%)
18:07:26 [JR]
JA: Next thing is a TPAC at beginning of Nov.
18:07:42 [JR]
JA: They want to know which groups are interested
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JA: In Santa Clara
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JA: Before Thanksgiving
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MH: I would try to make it
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HS: I need to check
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SH: Also need to check
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JR: Would help if AUWG was also meeting
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KF: It's possible
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JS: First Q, would everyone like to meet this year?
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JS: Context...so many groups reporting travel restrictions that it may be cancelled or morphed into something else
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JA: Should we meet before Dec?
18:11:13 [AllanJ]
=1
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KF: Yes...they are very productive
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JR:+1
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JA: +1
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HS:+1
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JA: OK so when, where?
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JA: TPAC is one option...other ideas?
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KF: I could explore hosting it in Redmond
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JS: My pers opinion is if we go to W. coast, combining with TPAC might work
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JS: But if TPAC cancelled would like to pursue Redmond
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JS: We could possibly host on East coast
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SH: Better for me on East coast of US
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SH: Better to coord so that we are at best spot in our release cycle
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JA: Agree
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JA: But i think whenever we held it we'd jump in on lots of work
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KF: East coast fine with me too'
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JA: The dates would be Nov 2-6
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JA: XHTML2, WCAG, EO, ERT, etc.
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JA: Are meeting.
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URI?
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JA: Mar. 18 is due date to sign up
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JA: I will put on agenda for next week
18:18:34 [jeanne]
action: JA to make a survey item whether or not planning to attend TPAC in Nov
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Created ACTION-156 - Make a survey item whether or not planning to attend TPAC in Nov [on Jim Allan - due 2009-03-12].
18:19:31 [JR]
Topic: Review WAI-ALT attribute proposal (HTML5)
18:20:43 [AllanJ]
JR: History, HTML5 @alt, WAI review, send proposal to HTML5
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...terse label is critical - @alt or @arialabledby
18:22:16 [AllanJ]
...still debating: alt="" (backward compatibility), or @ariarole="presentation"
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JA: There's be 15-20 WAI people slogging through this
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q+
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KF: this is scary, could get really confused
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ack Kford
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KF: Kind of scary that simple alt might become a lot more complicated
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MH: Looking at HTML5, worried about guidnace given on alt
18:25:54 [JR]
JA: There is history to this....
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JA: The group is trying to come up with a WAI approved approach
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JA: HTML5's use case has been flickr
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JA: So discussions have gone on for thousands of emails
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JA: So the WAI group has been meeting for 6 weeks now...to try to come up with something better
18:28:23 [JR]
KF: From user agent perspective...support whatever not that hard
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KF: As a group, our first priority to talk from UA perspective...
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JA: Basic browsers really don't do fallback....it's ATs do that
18:36:54 [JR]
Topic: Survey Results
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http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/36791/20090223/
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Topic: Definition - User Agent
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JA: 4 accepts, 1 change
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JA: I proposed A user agent is any software that facilitates end user interaction with Web content it retrieves and renders.
18:39:26 [KFord]
I say go with accept the current.
18:39:35 [JR]
JA: So we'll go with current proposed wording
18:40:06 [jeanne]
action: JS to update the definition of User AGent based on the survey of http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/36791/20090223/results
18:40:06 [trackbot]
Created ACTION-157 - Update the definition of User AGent based on the survey of http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/36791/20090223/results [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2009-03-12].
18:43:42 [AllanJ]
JR: discussion of UA definition expansion. Simple email program would not be an UA
18:44:22 [JR]
KF: Is Google docs a web based user agent?
18:44:38 [JR]
JR: Prob....def an authoring tool
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KF: Or a spreadhseet program
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JA: Gmail would be a user agent
18:45:54 [AllanJ]
JR: portal that delivers the content, is it the base browser, or is there another interface inside the UA interface
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...map example, the BASE UA knows nothing about maps, panning and zooming
18:46:30 [JR]
KF: So are all applications that run inside the web browser user agents
18:47:03 [AllanJ]
...only googlemaps provides the rich interface to the maps
18:47:38 [JR]
KF: Web-wise applicatios not doing anything either
18:48:21 [JR]
KF: IMagine web app (super duper web browser) - 3d web browser
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KF: I would think of that as a UA
18:49:24 [JR]
SH: So I've sure I've seen a google shell to facilitate Google docs etc
18:49:46 [JR]
JR: Google chrome?
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JA: Then there's Google Gears
18:50:30 [jeanne]
q+ to say what about User Agent that isn't covered by WCAG, that applies to an app.
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MH: Gears still uses the UA for presentation
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ack JS
18:51:21 [Henny]
http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/01/design-review-and-windowless-browsing/
18:51:32 [JR]
JS: What I'm thinking is what aspects of user agents are not covered by WCAG...to see where we really need to provide guidance
18:51:42 [JR]
JS: I think about multimedia players
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JS: We can go into more depth
18:52:02 [sharper]
q+
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JS: And Flash
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ack jeanne
18:52:15 [Zakim]
jeanne, you wanted to say what about User Agent that isn't covered by WCAG, that applies to an app.
18:52:32 [JR]
MH: itunes?
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ack sharper
18:52:58 [JR]
SH: I was just thinking...plugin does own rendering...not pushed to user agent
18:53:41 [AllanJ]
JR: what about example of media player
18:54:18 [AllanJ]
SH: the embedded player has its own UI separate from UA-UI
18:54:24 [Zakim]
-Henny
18:54:49 [AllanJ]
JR: flash movie, has its own controls
18:56:12 [AllanJ]
...plugins are user agents
18:59:06 [JR]
JR, KF, JA, SH: Discussing what is a user agent
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where is the line.
18:59:36 [AllanJ]
KF: baseball game?
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JR: data transport vs webcontent
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KF: what if you have a flash app that lets you take a test
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+??P1
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JR: Comes down
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JA: Like a plugin
19:01:31 [AllanJ]
JR: definition, is changing content types. base-ua know nothing about rdf, and a plugin renders the rdf then a UA
19:01:33 [JR]
JR: A web-based plugin
19:01:48 [JR]
SH: If it just did a conversion then its not a user agent
19:02:06 [AllanJ]
SH: so if the rdf plugin does not take any input and send it back to the UA then not a UA
19:04:20 [JR]
JA: two thins i'm hearing...1. A web app provides a unique UI for user interaction that base UA does not know about
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q+
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JA: ex. flash movie players that provides it's own pause, play etc
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JA: Other part (2) web apps that communicate back to user agent to do rendering
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SH: Let's step back...I'm not sure I like User agents defn
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SH: Are those "ands" or "ors"?
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SH: Between retreive, render, interaction
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JS: The criticism at ATIA was that we need to be really clear where the dividing line between WCAG and UAAG.
19:08:05 [JR]
JA: That's good in concept, but there's maybe a 25% overlap between WCAG and UAAG
19:08:26 [JR]
JA: We've gone over it several times.
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JA: So causes a fuzzy gray area
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JA: My concern about Web apps as uAs is AJAX stuff
19:10:43 [AllanJ]
JR: ability of AU to get outside of their own data, user takes their settings with them as they go to other sites
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...Baseball game, can't take your data to a different game
19:11:49 [JR]
SH: Still re: User Agent...I think would be clearer...A user agent is any software that facilitates end user interaction with Web content including presentation.
19:12:19 [AllanJ]
SH: who does the retrieval
19:12:42 [AllanJ]
JR: it is your UA, you use it to retrieve stuff to interact with it.
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JR: It is "YOUR" "AGENT"
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KF: I like what simon says
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JA: So if we leave retrieve out
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JA: Is Flickr?
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JA: Is Google docs?
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KF: Google docs doesn't facilitate interaction with web content
19:14:50 [JR]
JA: OK...here at school we have a learning management system
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JA: It's an application that lives inside a browser
19:16:00 [JR]
SH: As far as I'm concerned the browser is the part that is being used for the end user interaction...if it's just HTML
19:16:51 [AllanJ]
JR: agree, how does your definition cut off the application jim described
19:17:42 [JR]
JA: The part I left out ... I'm in Web 2.0 application with iuts own interface....the user agent doesn't know anything about the controls
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JR: Anything in AJAX is a user agent?
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SH: No the javascript is interpreted by the browser
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q+
19:20:31 [AllanJ]
JR: test I use for UA determination. Zoom feature. where does it make sense.
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...on most webpages, the UA has a zoom feature. If I have a flash with a zoom feature.
19:21:23 [JR]
SH: I think that test is ok
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SH: If plugin devolves the zoomin to the browser then its not a UA
19:22:23 [JR]
SH: JR's example was 2 user agents...the base browser and the application that can zoom maps
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JR: So UAAG is going to be requiring zooms, etc. we are wanting to target the right apps
19:23:34 [JR]
SH: So if I'm handling the user input its me that is the web app
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JA:...
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KH: Part of me still says WCAG should not be allowing things totally opaque to user agents
19:26:34 [JR]
KH: Diff tests....my test...can I independently go to wherever I want - get whatever content I want...so not walled garden
19:27:43 [AllanJ]
JR: not so clear cut, may capture some some stuff, but not others.
19:28:48 [JR]
SH: Test....if input is captured and processed and output is generated without reference to another ua
19:29:00 [AllanJ]
...application would be making claim as a user agent. Our web-application-UA will use these facilities from the base-UA and provide all of these other things.
19:29:10 [JR]
JR: Actually we draw the big circle around the web app that's a UA + the base UA
19:29:16 [JR]
KH...
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SH: In Google example...what about partial conformance....but everything else develoves to browser
19:31:24 [AllanJ]
JR: basebrowser uses the OS platform to handle lots of functions.
19:32:13 [JR]
KF: Example of Facebook and all those little apps
19:32:56 [JR]
KF: Next steps?
19:33:12 [JR]
JA: In our status of the document...we do ask about Web apps as user agents.
19:33:23 [JR]
JA: I don't think we have enough info
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KF: Having the context of this discussion would help
19:34:18 [JR]
SH: There could be 2 steps...(1) do they have the ability to be a user ...can you eat input and generateoutput indepenednently...(2) do you actually do that or do you devolve
19:35:05 [JR]
JA: Can we take this to the list
19:35:47 [JR]
Action JA: Look at WCAG 2.0 to compare with UAAG2 re: overlaps
19:35:47 [trackbot]
Created ACTION-158 - Look at WCAG 2.0 to compare with UAAG2 re: overlaps [on Jim Allan - due 2009-03-12].
19:36:03 [JR]
JA: On line we need use cases
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JA: Makes more sense to have some target apps to pound on
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-kford
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-??P1
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-Mark_Hakkinen
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-sharper
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-JR
19:38:00 [AllanJ]
rrsagent, who was here
19:38:00 [RRSAgent]
I'm logging. I don't understand 'who was here', AllanJ. Try /msg RRSAgent help
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-AllanJ
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-Jeanne
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WAI_UAWG()1:00PM has ended
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Attendees were kford, AllanJ, Mark_Hakkinen, sharper, Jeanne, JR, Henny
19:44:12 [AllanJ]
rrsagent, make minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/03/05-ua-minutes.html AllanJ
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rrsagent, bye
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I see 3 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2009/03/05-ua-actions.rdf :
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ACTION: JA to make a survey item whether or not planning to attend TPAC in Nov [1]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/03/05-ua-irc#T18-18-34
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ACTION: JS to update the definition of User AGent based on the survey of http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/36791/20090223/results [2]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/03/05-ua-irc#T18-40-06
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ACTION: JA to Look at WCAG 2.0 to compare with UAAG2 re: overlaps [3]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/03/05-ua-irc#T19-35-47