- From: Filippo Levizzani <filippo.levizzani@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:53:47 +0100
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:43 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron at dbaron.org> wrote: > On Friday 2008-11-14 11:37 +0100, Filippo Levizzani wrote: > > Would it be possible to have "media" attribute in the SCRIPT element? > > > > Addmitted vaues would be the same of STYLE element (all, screen, print, > > handheld ...) > > I'm not quite sure how this would work, since there are two things > that seem incompatible: > > * scripts are executed during parsing / content model construction in theory the script would just be skipped (as there is no script tag at all). I don't know if the media type is known only at the end of model construction... if so, then it would be a problem :-/ > > > * whether a media attribute is true can change over time but the same applies to style element , I guess > > > This seems to imply that we'd have to go un-execute a script, or > that we'd have to execute later something that was skipped earlier, > even when that no longer makes sense. > > > What was the actual use case you were trying to solve with this > attribute? For instance, I'd like to call SWFObject function (to replace html content with flash) only if media=screen. Other times there are js funcions that have no sense if a given style sheet has not been applied to the page. Filippo > > > -David > > -- > L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ > Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20081114/a84d14b8/attachment.htm>
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