Rik.
Hit testing is managed by the user agent. When you do things like clearRect
() it is supposed to delete some of the hit regions. What you are
suggesting is comparable to developers trying to keep track of focus
changes. I don't agree with your assertion.
So, once you set a hit region it is given to the browser and it has its own
copy of it that it operates off of. What are the odds of staying in synch
with that over time?
Rich
Rich Schwerdtfeger
From: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
Cc: Canvas <public-canvas-api@w3.org>, Jatinder Mann
<jmann@microsoft.com>
Date: 10/05/2014 09:12 PM
Subject: Re: hit region list
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
wrote:
Jatinder, Rik,
I am working on the testable statements for hit regions. There is no
programmatic way to determine the hit region list. So, when we want to
verify that a hit region having the same id is replaced in the list we
cannot determine if the old hit region, associated with the id, is
removed from the list. A developer will want to be able to look at the
hit region list.
I filed a defect on this:
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26977
This will need to be a canvas 2.0 item and it does restrict our ability
to test all of canvas 1.0 hit region functionality.
I don't see why this needs to be a feature in canvas. If a developer wants
to keep track of the hit regions, he can do that himself.
