Re: Some filter effects specification review comments

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:34:55 +0200, Vincent Hardy <vhardy@adobe.com> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> On 6/20/11 2:09 PM, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
>
>> Do you have any specific use-cases in mind where hit-testing would need
>> to be modified for the effects of a complex filter?
>
> An extreme case would be a filter that totally wipes out rendering
> (feFlood for example). Another one would be feGaussianBlur where it is  
> not
> clear (so to speak) what the actual hit would be if we do not do anything
> about it. feOffset is another one that could get really confusing because
> of how close the rendering is to what it was before filtering.
>
> Vincent

How is this different from say a span element that has a text-shadow that  
is somewhere far off?

<style>
#test { text-shadow: 100px 0 0 blue }
</style>
<span id="test" onclick="alert('clicked')">Click here</span>


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