- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:15:27 +0200
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Jan 29, 2010, at 17:49, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > (1) irrelevant,hidden,conceal (Karl's proposal) are mysterious names > which all raise the question "irrelevant,hidden,concealed from what?". FWIW, the attribute used to be called "irrelevant". It was renamed to "hidden" to align with ARIA that has "aria-hidden" for the same semantic. HTML5 "hidden" is mostly redundant with "aria-hidden". It provides three differences: 1) "hidden" will eventually have UA style sheet support. 2) "hidden" in theory applies to non-accessibility unusual modalities while "aria-hidden", in theory, only matters to accessibility API mapping. 3) "hidden" is part of the host language on the principle that ARIA is a transitional solution and should become syntactically obsolete as host languages gain enough features to address the use cases. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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