- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:54:12 -0800
- To: "Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com> wrote: >> "Remove/Discard the Hidden Attribute" > [...] >> If no Change Proposals are written by February 14, 2010 this issue will be >> closed without prejudice. > > I'm willing to write a zero-edit counter-proposal, though I won't > bother to unless someone actually writes a change proposal for this > issue. Thanks Edward for stepping up. For what it's worth I'd support a zero-edit proposal. My main reason for liking the 'hidden', over the other suggestions in bug 8118 (using CSS in combination with aria-hidden), is that the 'hidden' attribute carries semantic information. CSS is supposed to be a styling language, and thus not an appropriate place to put semantic information. aria attributes, if I understand things correctly, are intended to carry accessibility specific information, and thus also not appropriate to carry semantic information. The semantic meaning of the hidden attribute carries the semantic meaning that the element itself, and its descendents are irrelevant. I.e. that the semantic meaning of the document are as if those elements aren't there. Thus the two document-fragments have the same semantic meaning: <body> <p>This is some text</p> <form hidden action=""><input name=name><button type=submit>Send your name</button></form> </body> <body> <p>This is some text</p> </body> / Jonas
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