Re: Announcement: Last Call WD of SVG 1.1 Second Edition

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com> wrote:

> You're right. What I really meant was, why should raster images get this
> special treatment in svg at all? My guess is that this particular
> specialcase[1] is largely unused today. I'd therefore like to open up
> discussion on an alternative proposal, which is to simply drop the special
> handling for raster images with alpha in the pointer-event definition[2] in
> SVG 1.1 Second Edition. However, a thing to note is that filters aren't
> meant to affect pointer-events processing at all, for the purposes of hit
> detection it's as if there was no filter applied [2].
>

If pointer-events:visiblePainted is used on an <image src="foo.svg"> to let
the pointer "go through" transparent pixels of the image, and foo.svg uses
filters internally to construct the image, I would say that those filters
*should* affect the pointer, wouldn't you?

Some things happened since my last message. For one thing, we implemented
<img src="foo.svg"> in Firefox and discovered security and privacy issues if
you let foo.svg load resources cross-origin or maybe even let it load
resources from the same origin! So we're only allowing data: URLs in there
for now :-(. So my proposed attack is blocked by that.

Anyway, thanks for bringing this up again, via
> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2011/02/distinguishing.html.
>
> Another question, does html:img have similar issues now that Firefox can
> apply filters to html content?
>

No, because we don't support pointer-events:visiblePainted or anything
equivalent.

I'm not quite sure what you were suggesting about raster images. I've
actually heard lots of author requests for a feature that lets pointer
events go through the transparent pixels of images, so I'd like to keep that
feature alive in pointer-events.

Rob
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