- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:50:15 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
- To: "Eric A. Meyer" <eric@meyerweb.com>
- cc: <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Eric A. Meyer wrote: > > I was wondering something today. Suppose I want to hide an Easter > Egg in my Web page (idle thought at lunch). I thought about doing it > like this: > > a.easter-egg {visibility: hidden;} > > However, upon trying this I discovered that browsers which make the > element invisible also prevent me from selecting the link. In other > words, the element ceased to be available for interaction, at least > with my mouse. > Should this be the case? Mozilla treats elements that are 'visibility: hidden' as if they were not available for user interaction because it is very bad UI to have invisible elements react to the user. We decided that good UI was overall a better aim than the few edge cases. ;-) Authors of other UAs probably did the same. -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Netscape, Standards Compliance QA /. `- ' ( `--' +1 650 937 6593 `- , ) - > ) \ irc.mozilla.org:Hixie _________________________ (.' \) (.' -' __________
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