- From: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:19:10 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Sep 24, 2013, at 5:50 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote: > On 9/24/13 11:32 AM, Dirk Schulze wrote: >> That may depend if the returned rect is live or not. > > It's not. > >> If not, why not? > > Because that makes the API near-impossible to use: if you do anything > that changes geometry, suddenly the object you're using in your > calculations for changing that geometry changes… That is a misunderstanding. I meant exactly the same as you. > > I personally see no problem with allowing the page to mutate the object > returned from getBoundingClientRect, fwiw. It's always a new object, etc. Agree. > > -Boris > Dirk
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