Re: Are there some HTML tags that I can use to make certain blocks auto-hide in eww?

[T.V Raman]

That option was added to hide nodes with aria-hidden=true.

That HTML attribute --- aria-hidden --- comes from the W3C ARIA Spec
(Access To Rich Internet Applications) and the motivation there was
to avoid accidentally rendering DOM nodes that have HTML content, but
are normally hidden from being rendered by JavaScript. Since one
cannot figure that out by analysing JS code (Halting Problem), we at
the time decided to introduce a DOM  attribute  that could be examined
to discover that the state of a DOM node was hidden. Later if a script
makes that node visibly, it  needs to also set that attr to false.

In the case, of EWW, since we dont run JS code, the state of
aria-hidden=true will never change to false from the  initial value
and you can safely drop those nodes.
Kaushal Modi writes:
 > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:25 AM Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
 > 
 > 
 >  Possibly setting shr-discard-aria-hidden to t by default would make
 >  sense, I just don't feel familiar enough with its usage in practice to
 >  make that call.
 > 
 > 
 > Copying Lars and T.V. Raman (OP of 
 > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32348) for their opinion on 
 > this.

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