Apple won a new patent for intriguing technology that would sense hovering just above the device display and execute functions accordingly. Such technology could allow users to push virtual buttons ...

Apple's hover-sensing display patent was first filed for in March 2015 and credits Steven P. Hotelling and Christoph H. Krah as its inventors. Follow AppleInsider on Google News 31 Comments ...

AFAIK, CSS cannot affect the DOM tree. So, display: none just says the element should not be displayed, not that it should cease to exist. Style/structure separation and all that.

It's been a while since we've seen any development of the company's now ubiquitous "+1" button, but beginning soon, your +1s are going to get a whole lot more useful (and creepy?).