Re: making page visibility a property of document instead of top level browsing context

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/25/13 10:02 AM, Arvind Jain wrote:
>>>
>>> "hidden" would mean the document is not visible to the user.
>>
>>
>> As in definitely not visible.
>>
>> That is, we would allow cases when the document is not actually visible,
>> but the visibility state is still "visible", right?
>
> I think we have to go with this definition. For example, I don't think we
> want to say that a document is hidden if it's obscured by a
> position:absolute div or if it's in an opacity:0 container. I'm picturing
> that, in practice, we'd only report hidden if the frame is hidden due to
> being outside the visible part of the top-level document (i.e. it's in the
> overflow).

We'd still want to say that the iframe is hidden if it has an ancestor
which is display:none, right?

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:13:00 UTC