[Accessibility-ia2] IEnumVARIANT vs arrays

Alexander Surkov surkov.alexander at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 04:25:07 UTC 2012


Basically that's what Jamie said. We need to make sure the server
doesn't do extra work when nobody needs it. So I'm fine with Jamie
proposal to pass the desired targets amount.
Alex.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Alexander Surkov
<surkov.alexander at gmail.com> wrote:
> ARIA tends to expose multiple targets especially stuffs like
> aria-labelledby. I don't have statistics though. But the point is if
> AT needs only one targets then the server shouldn't spend a time to
> check whether there are other targets. In other words we can end up
> with single target but the server can do a lot of computation to
> figure out this.
>
> Thank you.
> Alex.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:31 AM, James Teh <jamie at nvaccess.org> wrote:
>> On 6/03/2012 7:20 AM, Pete Brunet wrote:
>>>
>>> Jamie, Since the server allocates the array, are there any issues for AT
>>> regarding the method I proposed?
>>
>> Not directly for ATs. However, fetching multiple targets might be expensive
>> and slow on the server side; if I recall correctly, Alex has concurred with
>> this. Obviously, if the server is slow, the client slows down too. The idea
>> was to allow clients who only want one target to just fetch one target
>> without incurring a performance penalty on the server side.
>>
>> Alex, how often are there actually multiple targets for a single relation in
>> Mozilla itself?
>>
>>
>> Jamie
>>
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