- From: Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:21:43 +0200
- To: Simon Stewart <shs@rocketpoweredjetpants.com>
- CC: www-dom@w3.org
Hi Simon, On 09/11/2012 04:25 PM, Simon Stewart wrote: > Hi, > > As part of the work we're doing on the WebDriver spec, we're attempting to > identify properties or algorithms that may be better placed in other specs. > We think that there are two obvious candidates for inclusion into future > revisions of the DOM spec: "shown" and "shownText". > > The "shown" property describes whether a particular element could be made > visible to a user. The algorithm we use to determine this is described in: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/#determining-visibility > > The "shownText" property returns the user visible text that corresponds to > what a user would see. The algorithm we use for this is described in: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/#rendering-text Both of those look rather dependent on styling. As DOM is CSS-independent, we are unlikely to specify these features in this specification. A better place for such properties would probably be CSSOM or CSSOM View (discussed on www-style@w3.org). HTH Ms2ger
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