The primary purpose of the display attribute is to regulate layout. That an element with no display is not visible is only a side effect. As long as there is no public standard for sound layout (the composers' and arrangers' know-how has not permeated to the Web yet and the acronym AUI is not commonly recognized), applying the display attribute to sound seems to be an unmotivated extrapolation. Best regards, Chris
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fantasai Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 2:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: WHATWG Subject: Re: [whatwg] When to stop <video> elements from playing Robert O'Callahan wrote: > > A related question is whether display:none audio and video elements > should produce sound. No. "display: none" is defined to affect all media, and that certainly should not change for <audio> and <video>. ~fantasai