On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:42:25 -0400, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Michael A. Puls II
<shadow2...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:30:29 -0400, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu>
wrote:
Of course, if the idea is to support deferring for images, <object>
and
<embed> etc. and it's not desired that that support be given through
css, perhaps there should be some attribute that does that. <img
disabled> <object disabled> <embed disabled> etc. where .disabled =
false brings them alive.
I would prefer something like this. Using CSS for this purpose seems
wrong.
Sounds good. If it is an attribute, I wonder what would be a good name.
'disabled' might be likely to conflict with some plug-in param and might
conflict with <object> and <img> when they are form controls.
The obvious answer seems to be to use @hidden, which indicates that
the element is not currently relevant and should not be displayed.
O.K., so <object hidden> would prevent the <object> from being evaluated.
That would mean that nothing will load in it (plug-in, image or document
etc.) and nothing in @data would be fetched.
Then, if you remove @hidden or do .hidden = false, the <object> would be
evaluated and things would be fetched and loaded depending on @type and
@data etc.
Then, if you set @hidden or do .hidden = true, the plug-in instance or
document (caches aside) would be destroyed and the <object> would be
hidden again and be back to its declared-only state.
Finally, a hidden object would obviously not be shown visibly , but would
also take up zero space.
I guess it could be @noeval instead of @hidden if you like @noeval better.
--
Michael
