Funny... IE9 shows true, but only when there's a valid doctype :)
-Original Message-
From: Boris Zbarsky
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:58 AM
To: Alexandre Morgaut
Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Subject: Re: [whatwg] [WHATWG] HTMLElement ids as global object properties
On 4/3/11 12:53
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
