Re: ISSUE-95 hidden - Chairs Solicit Proposals

> Of course, what HTML4 doesn't mention is that the object can also be 
> instantiated by removing the @declare attribute ...

Well, then you would loose your reference and all the childs would 
have to die. @declare changed the tree into a graph. The 'same' child 
could have any number of parents.  I might have been way off, but it 
was @declare='string' then the object to be rendered was actually 
coded as '#string' in an <a>. So, the same child could have many 
parents. The concept is was wild. @declare was independent of @id. I 
wanted to learn about that new to html thing then because x3d (then 
vrml) did similar; add a DEF to a node then a duplicate node can be 
made active anywhere by USE.

On the topic of the idea of putting some data in there that is 
intended to be hidden and not rendered, but just informative for the 
author or consumer in some hidden way.

>>>>>>> The hidden attribute is meant to mark a DOM subtree pruned 
>>>>>>> from all presentations on all media.

I am reaching some due to the <iframe with @sandbox and 
<sandbox></sandbox> discussion so why is this an attribute? Aren't 
there enough of them?. I mean we need the right number, but... In 
looking at all of current browser behaviours isn't there an existing 
way to cover this use case? Simple typos sometimes cause this.

If "hidden" is needed, then why not a way to declare it in advance. It 
doesn't sound reasonable to expect the UA to do whatever if I 
add/remove that attr. so why not an element?

The head could contain a declaration of this category that says this 
element and its children represent the kind of data we are discussing 
in this topic and it is mystuff, so UA don't concern yourself with it.

<head>
<mystuff [space separated strings representing name.id containers that 
are to be hidden as quoted above] />
...
</head>

<mystuff> is new. Any element name.id in that list is guaranteed to be 
not making it into the render/dom builder or client viewsource(?).

So maybe it is the idea that this authors directive that produces some 
behavior should be included as an element with values and maybe 
content that defines some behavior, not as a simple attribute.

Or, in the body

<hidden>
<htmlstuffthatshouldnotbeincluded... >
</hidden>

That way would make it more apparent that the UA should just skip this 
entire container of stuff because it is really not pertinent to any 
application of the user. No client choices on this.
Also this construction would make it less likely for an author to 
abuse this feature thinking it should be live. Sorry, you can't bring 
it back because it was never really there.

Thank You All and Best Regards,
Joe

Received on Friday, 29 January 2010 23:38:02 UTC