- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:38:28 +1000
- To: Joshua RANDALL FTRD/DIH/BOS <joshua.randall@francetelecom.com>
- CC: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>, www-style@w3.org, Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
Joshua RANDALL FTRD/DIH/BOS wrote:
>
> Having a general purpose pseudo class to represent the loading status of
> elements that reference externally sourced data sounds like a useful idea.
>
> Perhaps it would be useful to have something like ":loading", ":loaded",
> and ":loadfail"?
I don't see :loaded or :loadfail as useful, but the concept of :loading
is slightly different and could actually be useful.
The object element has a standby attribute [1] (although it's a
<standby> element in XHTML2 [2]) which is designed to be shown by user
agents while the content is loading. Perhaps a :loading or :standby
pseudo-class could be used to select elements in this state.
eg. For (X)HTML 4.01/1.x:
object[standby]:standby { content: attr(standby); }
Would select any object with a standby attribute that is in the :standby
state.
For XHTML2:
object:standby *:not(standby) { display: none; }
would remove all content from the display except the standby element
from an object in the :standby state.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#adef-standby
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/mod-object.html#sec_21.3.
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