Re: [Lynx-dev] The HTML hidden attribute

[Jude DaShiell]

Stuff that's on web pages that isn't text or controls like images that if
clicked on do nothing it's well to hide except if the image has an alt=
tag with a description or a long-desc tag if I have that tag correctly
described.  On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:30:53
> From: Karen Lewellen <address@hidden>
> To: HiPhish <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] The HTML hidden attribute
>
> Hi,
> Wanting to be sure I understand the issue.  granted we have a much later
> edition  of lynx here.
> Still, at least with my setup, the  place to check a box is indeed present,
> with  my status line  indicating it is a check box.
> What would be there if things worked as you wished?
> Further as a real world example, say when a person is in a low graphics
> environment, and using speech, why would you want the attribute hidden?
> Kare
>
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, HiPhish wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am running Lynx 2.8.9 and it looks like the 'hidden' attribute[1] is not
> > implemented. Here is a minimal example:
> >
> > http://hiphish.github.io/blog/2019/01/28/pure-html-css-menubar/demo.html
> >
> > The checkbox and the empty list items should not be shown in Lynx. Are there
> > plans to implement the hidden attribute in the future? The reason I'm asking
> > is because I am using the checkbox hack, some elements in the HTML need to
> > be
> > hidden from user agents, and then I use CSS to override this in graphical
> > web
> > browsers. The example above links to an article explaining the hack.
> >
> >
> > [1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/editing.html#the-hidden-attribute
> >
> >
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