- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:34:09 +0100
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, public-html@w3.org
Jonas Sicking On 09-10-29 00.19: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: >> On Oct 28, 2009, at 00:01, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >>> <p id="desc" hidden> >>> ...description here... >>> </p> >> This is problematic, because the hidden attribute is suppose to hide content >> on all media--including pruning the content out of the accessible tree. > > I don't think that affects IDREFS going into such a part of the page > though. @hidden doesn't conceptually remove things from the page, for > example scripts still execute, plugins and iframes still load, DOM is > still created etc. > > It just removes that part of the page from the normal flow. The same > way as "display:none" does. Display:none is used to remove things from all media. Including screen readers. Something that works the same way obviously is a nonstarter. -- leif halvard silli
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