- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:07:11 -0600
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: "Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Thanks from me too, Edward. I was going to volunteer to write one if it had become necessary. Like Jonas, I feel there is great value in @hidden. My reasoning is very practictal; I want to be able to maintain the handful of CSS hacks that *do* hide something from the visual rendering only. It's already impossible to use display:none to hide content just from visual UAs (leaving it for screen readers), as it is used too commonly to indicate that the element should be hidden entirely, and so non-visual UAs are forced to also ignore it to be useful to their users. The CSS hacks we still have available to us are less widespread and slightly more work, and the existence of a single, simple attribute that can handle the "hide this element" role should hopefully minimize the misuse of those hacks, ensuring they remain useful for longer. ~TJ
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