Implied essentiality levels of some @action values

[matatk]

I had some questions about the implied level of essentiality of some of the action attribute values:

• delete isn't implicitly critical (but I expected it to be); do we know why? I know there is a note in the spec about the "delete" function being not necessarily essential for some tasks, so maybe that's why, but it seems quite context-dependant.
• escape feels like it should be implicitly critical too, but isn't; do we know why?
  • I note we have a cancel action too, which is marked as critical; cancel is specified as relating entirely to dialogs. I wonder if it's a subset of escape?

This maybe relates to (but is a separate/more specific question than) #66

[lseeman]

charles is adding to escape fro clarification . see mintes for 24/5/2001 other issues are agreeed

[clapierre]

Currently we have the following in our list of values in section 3.1.4 of the Content Module 1

cancel	Closes the dialog and discards any changes the user may have made within that dialog. (Implied simplification = "critical".)

escape	Typically used to abort, cancel or change what is currently being displayed on the screen. A common application of the the esc key is to leave full screen mode.

I propose the following for both cancel and escape

cancel	Closes the dialog and discards any changes the user may have made within that dialog. (Implied simplification = "critical", the reason being if there is no escape option cancel must be present to abort the operation)

escape	Typically used to abort, cancel or change what is currently being displayed on the screen. A common application of the the esc key is to leave full screen mode. (implied simplification = "critical", the reason being if there is no cancel option escape must be present to abort the operation)

I am fine if we don't feel we also need to justify cancel as requiring critical simplification and leave its definition alone and only update escape.

[matatk]

Just a quick note that we also discussed this on the group call: https://www.w3.org/2021/05/24-personalization-minutes.html

[matatk]

Having re-read the minutes, I think we agreed to go with @clapierre's second option and revised wording. We also note @lseeman's point that we must be considering what's absolutely critical from the user's perspective.

[matatk]

Just a further note that the discussion in the minutes seems to start at https://www.w3.org/2021/05/24-personalization-minutes.html#x103

[johnfoliot]

Close per Issue #194