Re: [cssom-view] Correction and clarification for the coordinate systems of getClientRect/getBoundingClientRect

Yehuda Katz
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:

> That was just an example.
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> My point was that information is lost if you append all the transforms.
> Better to give back the untransformed bounds and tell the user to do the
> math himself.
>

Or we can provide both, as I suggested earlier. "The math" is non-trivial
for the average developer.


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> Rik
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> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> It seems like you shouldn't take the transform into account since the
>>> axis-aligned box will be too big.
>>> ie if you were to use the getClientRects API for hit detection and you
>>> have 2 neighboring and skewed or rotated elements, their boxes will overlap.
>>>
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>> You shouldn't use getClientRects for hit detection. But if getClientRects
>> doesn't take transforms into account, it's even more useless for hit
>> detection.
>>
>> Rob
>> --
>> "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
>> in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us
>> our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not
>> sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us." [1 John
>> 1:8-10]
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