Re: hit testing and retained graphics

On 6/28/2011 10:24 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
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> On Jun 28, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger
>> <schwer@us.ibm.com <mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com>> wrote:
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>> What about Adobe Flash in this area? Adobe Flash is used for many of
>> the same use cases that canvas is used for. Is Flash more accessible?
>> How do they do it? Is Flash prohibited because it's not accessible?
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> I'm not an expert on Adobe Flash accessibility, but my understanding 
> is that its drawing model is more like SVG (retained mode) than like 
> Canvas (immediate mode). Thus, there are persistent objects that 
> represent your drawing.
Flash has an immediate mode drawing model as well. I've implemented 
Canvas on top of it
and successfully cross-compiled ECMAScript+Canvas applications into 
Flash byte code using
the open source tools that Adobe has released.

Children can be bound to the drawing surface in flash much as they can 
be bound
to the shadow dom under Canvas