Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: 3rd call: CSS2: howto disable audio?

Jonathan,

I think your argument here actually helps illustrate the problem with 
your idea. <img> does address a limited range of file types, because it 
is an x/html tag specifically intended to display images. Setting:

img {display:none;}

removes the <img> tags from the flow, not all images. (for example: 
backgrounds.) The closest analog for audio is display:none on the 
<object> tag as has been mentioned, but i understand that's not what you 
hope to accomplish.

If you want no audio whatsoever coming from any source from a given 
page, without hindering visual rendering, then you're simply asking too 
much from CSS. That sounds much more like a browser feature, rather than 
styling x/html code. If there were a specific <audio> tag, then setting 
<audio> to display:none would be totally appropriate.

So while I agree it would be nice to be able to silence a browser, I 
feel that you're looking in the wrong place for a solution.

jvd



~:'' ありがとうございました。 wrote:
> 
> Sergiu,
> 
> not sure how closely you are following this thread...
> unfortunately as discussed previously display:none has rather too large 
> a remit for a user style sheet.
> that is it is difficult or more likely impossible to limit to a 
> particular file type.
> 
> this contrasts rather strongly with the case of img which specifically 
> addresses  a limited and specific range of file types.
> 
> regards
> 
> Jonathan Chetwynd
> 
> 
> 
> On 30 Jul 2007, at 14:08, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> 
> 
> ~:'' ありがとうございました。 wrote:
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>> David,
>>
>> you fail to address the query you highlight:
>> "Is there a good reason CSS does not cover this issue?"
>> is there a technical or other good reason beyond the historical 
>> artefact is already stated.
>>
>> clearly many users might prefer to hide flash on a site by site basis 
>> via there browser and quite likely a user style sheet.
>>
> 
> You can hide flash by setting display:none on the object or embed 
> element. But you cannot make only the sound inside the flash stop while 
> the flash is a binary entity that does not understand CSS.
> 
>> regards
>>
>> Jonathan Chetwynd
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30 Jul 2007, at 08:33, David Woolley wrote:
>>
>>
>> ~:'' ありがとうございました。 wrote:
>>
>>> this seems to be counter-intuitive, and a resolution by file type 
>>> seems feasible or possibly even near-trivial.
>>> Is there a good reason CSS does not cover this issue?
>>
>> You are taking a view that represents a popular misconception that web 
>> standard define the complete browser as a multimedia presentation 
>> engine, and which leads to people asking about Flash on www-html.
>>
>> In its original concept, HTML provided glue to ease the navigation to 
>> resources in many different forms.  Commercialisation has led to 
>> something of a compound document concept and special sorts of links 
>> that result in concurrent rendering of linked resources.  However, the 
>> fact still remains that, if you link to (embed, access with object) 
>> resources rendered by third party products, you cannot expect those 
>> third party products to fully integrate with the W3C technologies in 
>> the core product.
>>
>> If HTML had been designed as a multimedia presentation tool, it would be
>> different, but it might also not exist at all, because it would have 
>> been in direct competition with tools better at doing that job at the 
>> time it was invented.
>>
> 
> 
> 
>

Received on Monday, 30 July 2007 19:56:06 UTC