Re: hit region list

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
wrote:

> Rik.
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> Hit testing is managed by the user agent. When you do things like
> clearRect() it is supposed to delete some of the hit regions. What you are
> suggesting is comparable to developers trying to keep track of focus
> changes. I don't agree with your assertion.
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> So, once you set a hit region it is given to the browser and it has its
> own copy of it that it operates off of. What are the odds of staying in
> synch with that over time?
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As Dominic points out, the browser will manage that for you. You can even
"tear off" the canvas element from the DOM, insert it in a different
location and it should keep on working. If the only reason for this API is
testing, we shouldn't add it.

The a11y infrastructure does have access to the list of hit regions but I'm
unsure how you can use that for tests.


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> PM---On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwe]Rik
> Cabanier ---10/05/2014 09:12:01 PM---On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:14 AM,
> Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> From: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
> To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
> Cc: Canvas <public-canvas-api@w3.org>, Jatinder Mann <jmann@microsoft.com>
> Date: 10/05/2014 09:12 PM
> Subject: Re: hit region list
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> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <*schwer@us.ibm.com*
> <schwer@us.ibm.com>> wrote:
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>    Jatinder, Rik,
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>    I am working on the testable statements for hit regions. There is no
>    programmatic way to determine the hit region list. So, when we want to
>    verify that a hit region having the same id is replaced in the list we
>    cannot determine if the old hit region, associated with the id, is removed
>    from the list. A developer will want to be able to look at the hit region
>    list.
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>    I filed a defect on this:
>    *https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26977*
>    <https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26977>
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>    This will need to be a canvas 2.0 item and it does restrict our
>    ability to test all of canvas 1.0 hit region functionality.
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> I don't see why this needs to be a feature in canvas. If a developer wants
> to keep track of the hit regions, he can do that himself.
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