- From: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:39:17 -0500
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, wa-liaison@w3.org
At 2:20 PM -0500 20 12 2007, fantasai wrote: >I'm guessing that you want a clarification about "display: none" applying >also to non-visual displays. I've recorded that as issue 22 Yes, thanks. That is the specific problem we want fixed. Al >Al Gilman wrote: >> >>... >>This undermines the argument that the @media all rule applies when no >>specific media type is specified; however, it has been made plain -- at >>least in email form -- from the editors of the CSS 2.1 draft -- that the >>@media all rule DOES apply when no specific media type is specified; >>consult: >> >><http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/wai-liaison/2007May/0023.html> >>... >>as Al Gilman, WAI PF's chair, pointed out during this exchange, in the >>Visual Formatting Model section, the display property is explicitly >>defined as pertaining to all media types, and yet, in the definition of >>the none value for the display property is found the following: >>...> This could be misread to imply: "when the display property's value is >>none, it is not included in the graphical formatting structure (that >>is, layout), but should still be available as a kind of generated >>content, which occupies no part of the visual canvas, but which is >>rendered in the aural canvas." >> >>Other than in the definition of the display property, our reviewer >>couldn't find another instance in the draft that indicates that it >>applies to all media types. >> >>Assuming that you *do* mean display='none' to apply to all media, the >>Protocols & Formats working group requests that clarifying wording be >>added to the CSS2.1 Technical Recommendation where appropriate, so as >>to faithfully implement the consequences of the default media type >>being 'all' when no media type is defined. It needs to be clear >>whether display=none means nothing is presented to the user, in any >>medium, not only a graphical medium involving layout boxes. > >I'm having a very hard time understanding what problem you want fixed. >I'm guessing that you want a clarification about "display: none" applying >also to non-visual displays. I've recorded that as issue 22 > http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css2.1#issue-22 >But there's a lot of other text in your post here, and I can't tell if >it's trying to request some other change as well or what. > >~fantasai
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