- From: Sebastian Markbåge <sebastian@calyptus.eu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:40:30 +0200
> > > The spec should explicitly specify which MouseEvent properties are > > available during the various drag events to avoid assumptions. > > The spec requires them to all be set on all drag events, currently. > I thought that this was clear too but apparently it's not clear that they should be set to something useful: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505521 > > The specification is only partly input device agnostic. It can't be both > > totally input device agnostic and inherit MouseEvent. If it's going to > > inherit MouseEvent it needs to be specified what that means. > > I've added more text to clarify what it means in the case of the mouse not > being used. > > Apparently it also needs to be clear that the properties SHOULD be set, if a pointing device IS being used. See above conversion on the Mozilla bug. I'd suggest you add something like "If there is a relevant pointing device, the attributes should be set to relevant position values for all events in the sequence." - So that the intention is clear and don't have to rely on implicit interpretation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090812/c4d22147/attachment.htm>
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