On Jan 23, 2014, at 10:52 PM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/23/14 9:13 PM, Bruno Racineux wrote: >> Could 'resource control' be an associated spec of the 'hidden' attribute? > > It bothers me, at first glance, to overload the attribute to mean different > things. I predict people will appear who want the hidden thing to hide but > still want loading/preloading. > > It would be better to just have a separate attribute for the separate task if > we go this direction. In addition to overloading `hidden`, it misses the `postpone` use case of images that we want to be visible (i.e. not have a `hidden` attribute), but not loaded until/unless the user scrolls enough for them to be within the viewport.
