- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:03:20 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> David, do you know what are the circumstances under which such items that > would be rendered via JavaScript appear in the DOM even though they have not > been rendered visually? The wrong way of doing this is to initialise their absolute position to be off the screen. A better way is to give them a CSS attribute (display?) to make them invisible. NB You are not really talking about the web in general here, but really about users of recent versions of Internet Explorer. These effects almost certainly rely on the Microsoft proprietory document object model, or they dynamically detect IE and Netscape (and the rest just have to reverse engineer and emulate one of these). (A lot of the off topic questions on the www-html list are essentially people confusing browser object model scripting with HTML and expecting that it is in some way standardised across browsers. Object models are popularly known as Javascript and Javascript is popularly known as HTML.) Note the only part of Microsoft for which I permit JS by default is the software updates site (an essential part of the site for anyone using JS - you should ideally check it daily as the hackers will!) I generally only notice Javascript when it doesn't fall back cleanly.
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