Re: position: pointer

I added a section to the draft, roughly specifying how to treat carets,
pointers and user agents with no pointing devices attached.

Cheers,
Jussi

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Thompson <lordpixel@mac.com> wrote:

> Logically, wouldn't one also want to add position: caret to cater for
> those people using caret based browsing?
>
> Or alternatively specify what happens if the browser is in caret mode? If
> one of the use cases for this is hover effects that follow the user's
> current point of interest, that would be the caret not the pointer if a
> caret exists?
>
>
> On Oct 9, 2012, at 6:20 AM, Jussi Kalliokoski <jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> As per Brian Kardell's suggestion, and seeing that this might go
> somewhere, I threw together a quick spec draft for the proposal [1].
>
> Cheers,
> Jussi
>
> [1] http://fs.avd.io/css-pointer-position/
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Jussi Kalliokoski <
> jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I wanted to discuss the possibility of adding a new `position` type
>> called `pointer`. I came up with the idea as I was thinking about how
>> limited `title` attribute tooltips are, which made me check out the JS
>> libraries for the purpose, which are crappy as well, and I think JS
>> shouldn't be needed for "simple" positioning of elements like this (there
>> may be a few cycles to save here as well). The idea is pretty simple, it
>> works kinda like absolute or fixed position (in that the element is
>> floating), but the given coordinates are relative to the main pointer
>> position.
>>
>> This would let you make tooltips in pure CSS and HTML (not to mention
>> that you could recreate those stars flying around the mouse from the 90s
>> with just CSS and HTML ;). I made a small demo [1] [2] to give a better
>> picture of what I mean. The actual demo uses a silly JS shim, and I think
>> the smoothness speaks for itself about how unsuitable JS is for this kind
>> of functionality.
>>
>> Looking forward to feedback!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jussi
>>
>> [1] (code) https://gist.github.com/3853601
>> [2] (result) http://labs.avd.io/position-pointer/
>>
>
>