Anne van Kesteren

XHTML 2.0 media attribute

As I hightlighted some time ago, XHTML 2.0 introduces a media attribute. Although you can use it effectively there are potentional pittfalls as Faruk Ateş points out:

A much greater threat arises when Google starts indexing content for media="print", which may contain nothing but a large amount of generic search terms, and using that index in their search results.

It’s basically the same as display:none on some div element except that this looks more trustful at start.

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