On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:40:30 +0100, John Foliot fol...@wats.ca wrote:
One of the largest
problems with longdesc is/was that HTML4 did not clearly articulate how
user-agents should interact with the attribute (expectations), so
browsers did nothing. Let's learn from our earlier mistakes.
On 2011-04-02 10:30, John Foliot wrote:
Interesting question. Referring to the spec, I think that you may
have in fact uncovered a bug in the text. The spec states:
The user agent should allow the user to request that the details be
shown or hidden.
The problem (or potential problem)
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
If details default Boolean setting of 'hidden' results in the
equivalent of CSS's {display:none;} (where the content is taken
completely out of the page flow, both visually and in the DOM tree)
then this would likely be a possible alternative to @longdesc
Yes, it should be
On 4/4/11, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote:
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Yes, it should be implemented equivalent to display:none.
Please clarify. You seem to by trying to express it very briefly, at the
cost of change of meaning. You don't really mean that the entire details
element
On 4/2/11, John Foliot fol...@wats.ca wrote:
Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
As I understand details, it's for hiding the information contained
within from
users, but rendering it on command.
Correct, but it is the definition of 'hiding' that is under discussion here.
If it is just 'tucked away'
From a comment in a blog post of mine about longdesc
(http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/longdesc-in-html5/comment-page-1/#comment-749853)
I'm wondering if this is an appropriate used of details
details
summary
img src=chart.png alt=Graph of percentage of total U.S.
non-institutionalized
Bruce Lawson wrote:
I'm wondering if this is an appropriate used of details
snip
.. thereby acting as a discoverable-by-anyone longdesc. (The example is
adapted from the longdesc example at
http://webaim.org/techniques/images/longdesc#longdesc)
Note to grumpy people: I'm not trying to
On 4/2/11, John Foliot fol...@wats.ca wrote:
Bruce Lawson wrote:
I'm wondering if this is an appropriate used of details
snip
.. thereby acting as a discoverable-by-anyone longdesc. (The example is
adapted from the longdesc example at
Bjartur Thorlacius wrote:
As I understand details, it's for hiding the information contained
within from
users, but rendering it on command.
Correct, but it is the definition of 'hiding' that is under discussion here. If
it is just 'tucked away' but still in the page flow, is it really
