- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:31:07 +0000 (UTC)
- To: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- cc: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, Barry McMullin <barry.mcmullin@dcu.ie>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, James Craig wrote: > > It's common practice in web applications to show information at the time > it's requested. What if the author wants to show the linked content only > once the link is clicked? Wouldn't this requirement disallow that > pattern? Yes, but that pattern is addressed by <details>, not hidden="". The spec is explicit about hidden="" not being for that use case (it even gives an example of a case such as you describe -- a tab panel widget -- and describes why it isn't an appropriate use of hidden=""). On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > You still haven't answered the question what problem is solved by > defining @hidden this way. I didn't realise you were asking for the reason behind the actual definition of hidden="" as being "irrelevant data", I thought you were asking why we would disallow links to irrelevant data as a conformance requirement. hidden="" is defined as flagging irrelevant data because there previously was no way to do this, but it is common practice to have content in Web pages that is not relevant. For example, a Web app might have a login page and an application page as distinct <section>s of the same HTML file. There was no way, prior to hidden="", to initially hide the application page (which is useless until the user is logged in). Authors used display:none to fake this, but that has poor accessibility results; for example, it means any user agent without CSS support would see the content that was intended to be hidden. HTH, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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