Re: feedback requested: Canvas change for improved hit testing that also facilitates accessibility

This feels like an attempt to graft retained mode rendering on to canvas, what am i missing?

--Oliver

On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:

> Thanks Boris. Sorry for being a pest but I really want developers to work through the issues. 
> 
> So, you would do the following:
> 
> - Assign the a closed draw path to an element in fallback content: setClickableRegion(element). This immediately makes the association and places it at the bottom of the list.
> - Any time you draw the element it moves it to the top of the list.
> - If the fallback element is removed the association would need to go away. I did not address that so I will need to add that to the proposal
> - When a pointer event (click, etc.) goes to the fallback element the normal capture/bubbling event processing would apply
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> CTO Accessibility Software Group
> 
> <graycol.gif>Boris Zbarsky ---03/30/2011 10:05:48 AM---On 3/30/11 10:55 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > Seeing as nobody has commented can we assume tha
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> From:	Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
> To:	Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> Cc:	public-canvas-api@w3.org, public-html@w3.org, public-html-a11y@w3.org, public-html-request@w3.org, chuck@jumis.com, cyns@exchange.microsoft.com, david.bolter@gmail.com, faulkner.steve@gmail.com, franko@microsoft.com
> Date:	03/30/2011 10:05 AM
> Subject:	Re: feedback requested: Canvas change for improved hit testing that also facilitates accessibility
> 
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> 
> On 3/30/11 10:55 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> > Seeing as nobody has commented can we assume that developers have no
> > problem with our totally changing the canvas 2D API to support clickable
> > regions?
> 
> It might just mean that people don't read their mailing list spam every 
> few hours.
> 
> From reading over your proposal, I'm not sure I follow how it would 
> behave in the face of DOM mutations (e.g. elements being removed from 
> the fallback content).
> 
> Or put another way, once you draw, you're permanently attaching some 
> element to the canvas, right? Or is that not the proposal?
> 
> -Boris
>