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Bug 10241 - The platform specific activation behavior does not work in practice. E.g. http://us.starcraft2.com/dominion/entrance-exam-qna.xml relies on a click event for a display:none input element. The Web is the platform so we should just standardize on that :-)
Summary: The platform specific activation behavior does not work in practice. E.g. htt...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-07-27 10:42 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:45 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-07-27 10:42:42 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-label-element

Comment:
The platform specific activation behavior does not work in practice. E.g.
http://us.starcraft2.com/dominion/entrance-exam-qna.xml relies on a click
event for a display:none input element. The Web is the platform so we should
just standardize on that :-)

Posted from: 83.85.115.123 by annevk@opera.com
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-08 22:09:00 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The whole point of the Web is to provide the user with an experience that matches his platform's conventions, rather than doing things e.g. in a media-specific way.

Having said that, I couldn't work out what you meant about onclicks on display:none elements. Did the page change?