Suggestion: Don't download hidden items

[eszems]

As much as I can tell, hidden elements, especially images, are still downloaded. This is unnecessary and disadvantageous for a number of reasons. Could you change this?

[mapx]

The hiding filters are created for the elements on the page (css elements) which can't be blocked (they are part of the html page).
Sometimes is created some hiding filter which hides some images (other objects) (and which are downloaded). In those cases it would be better to block also the images / other objects.

[eszems]

I used Element Hiding Helper for hiding unnecessary elements of a page, which contained images, too. However there are images in the needed parts of the page too, and the main purpose of hiding would be to save some downloading bytes. (I am on a byte-limited connection.) Some elements contained many images, so this way I could hide them together. It would be good if page elements hidden this way would automatically prevent hidden elements (especially images) from downloading.

[mapx]

As I said, first block those images, then (if still necessary) create hiding filters.

[lewisje]

Sorry, but display:none is the best we can do, there's no CSS rule like download:no or something, and in order to automatically block images inside hidden elements, ABP would need to parse the page content for URLs and detect whether they are inside hidden content, and that leads to slow performance; it's the same reason ABP does not remove HTML or filter based on HTML content: forum/viewtopic.php?t=5977

It's better to look at the URLs of the image files and figure out patterns for blocking rules.