Re: [css4-ui] new 'cursor' value: 'auto-hide'

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On platforms with pointing devices, native media players typically hide
> the cursor when media is playing. The user may make the cursor visible
> again simply by moving their mouse.
>
> We'd like to propose a new 'cursor' value, 'auto-hide', which will allow
> page authors to match this native behavior when building applications
> with the HTML <video> or <canvas> elements, and other video-like Web
> content.
>
> I've added this request to the relevant CSS WG wiki page:
>
>                    http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css4-ui
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ted
>
> P.S., the relevant WebKit work is being tracked in this bug:
>              https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107601

The auto-hiding behavior seems orthogonal to the pointer being used. I
suggest it be added as an 'auto-hide' value *in addition to* the
existing cursor value.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 5 February 2013 22:31:08 UTC