Re: Adding currentTarget to Touch objects

On 30/05/2016 16:42, Rick Byers wrote:
> I agree.  Hit-testing (finding the node at a position) is a non-trivial
> operation, and for touch UIs it's often not necessary (or even
> desirable) to do this on every movement.  So we wouldn't want to add
> this to every TouchEvent by default.  We could have a method like
> "Touch.getNodeUnderTouch()" to let developers opt into it when they
> actually need it, but this would just be implemented with
> elementFromPoint so adding it to the Touch API probably doesn't buy you
> anything.

I agree as well that an explicit API seems overkill here, as internally 
the browser is likely to incur the same hit testing overhead as an 
explicit elementFromPoint() call.

P
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