On 4/4/11, Jukka K. Korpela 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
> element should not be displayed
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
If 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 impleme
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) he
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:40:30 +0100, John Foliot 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.
Tangent, but I t
Funny... IE9 shows true, but only when there's a valid doctype :)
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From: Boris Zbarsky
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To: Alexandre Morgaut
Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Subject: Re: [whatwg] [WHATWG] HTMLElement ids as global object properties
On 4/3/11 12:53
