From 037ebeb6badda0448ef06975064b56ce572cee20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Michael[tm] Smith" Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:44:23 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify what "palpable content" is. See https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28728 --- source | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/source b/source index 27dd0653fa7..823b468ccdd 100644 --- a/source +++ b/source @@ -10236,6 +10236,12 @@ http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20HTML%3E%0 data-x="concept-html-contents">contents that is palpable content and that does not have the hidden attribute specified.

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Palpable content makes an element non-empty by providing either + some descendant non-empty text, or else something users can + hear (audio elements) or view (video or img or + canvas elements) or otherwise interact with (for example, interactive form + controls).

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This requirement is not a hard requirement, however, as there are many cases where an element can be empty legitimately, for example when it is used as a placeholder which will later be filled in by a script, or when the element is part of a template and would on most pages be filled in but