[html4all] Touchscreen browsing and @longdesc

[Leif Halvard Silli]

Laura and all,

I've been lucky to try an Android based mobile phone. This struck me: 
For links, the Webkit browser of Android offers many options for 
opening them. A single 'finger click' opens the link right away. But if 
you 'click and hold the finger', then you get small splash screen which 
lists several actions.

For images it is similar: if you, on an image,  click and hold the 
finger, then you get a similar splash screen with options to save the 
image, display it fullscreen or use as background. In many ways, this 
is a context menu displayed as splash screen.

It should be, technically, quite simple to offer an option to open a 
image description.

So, this to me show that contextual menu versions of @longdesc could 
become immediately useful if transferred to touchscreens. May be an 
implementation example could be added to the change proposal?
-- 
Leif Halvard Silli