[whatwg] instantiating display:none plugins

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 11/2/11 11:52 PM, Michael A. Puls II wrote:
> If we want to keep the display: none behavior that's in current
> browsers, I'm not going to object. Just saying that it'd be nice
> (better/make more sense) if the use-case for display: none (deferring
> instantiation till it's shown) was handled by an attribute (instead of
> css) where removing the attribute made it come alive. That should be
> compatible with older browsers for sites already using display: none for
> deferring instantiation

I think having an explicit instantiation trigger that works even if 
display:none would be a reasonable thing to do.

-Boris