On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Cameron McCormack wrote: > > Ian Hickson: > > While I understand that you think you want to do this, you haven't yet > > provided a real use case, nor explained why the solution I gave in: > > > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-appformats/2007Feb/0068.html > > > > ...doesn't address this. > > Why was the use case I gave not "real"? Assuming you mean the centering one, it was real, but it can be addressed much more easily using the mechanism I gave (center the group, then offset the group by half the bounding box). > It seems reasonable to me. The solution you gave doesn’t address this > because the containing bound element may not be under my control (it was > written by someone else) and thus may not implement > .nearestViewportElement itself. So extend it, and implement "nearestViewportElement". XBL gives you the tools to do this -- you could even simply write a binding that applied to all elements that implemented this property. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Thursday, 15 February 2007 01:05:59 GMT
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