RE: click vs activate

I'd go with 'activate' over click, because in, say a touchscreen interface, the tap event would be the equivalent to the click event.
'activate' seems more generic.

Thomas
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From: Richard Schwerdtfeger [mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 3:16 PM
To: Tab Atkins Jr.
Cc: public-svg-wg@w3.org
Subject: Re: click vs activate


Tab,

The Events<https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/interact.html#SVGEvents> portion of the SVG2 spec. also states an issue where we are trying to reduce the number of events in general. Do you see any reason for keeping activate when click is generally supported by all the browsers? Although click has a device dependent name it performs the same function as activate.

This would simplify things for developers.

Rich



Rich Schwerdtfeger

[cid:image001.gif@01CE87B9.5BB5BE60]"Tab Atkins Jr." ---07/23/2013 04:28:35 PM---On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com<mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com>> wrote:

From: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com<mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com>>
To: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS,
Cc: "public-svg-wg@w3.org<mailto:public-svg-wg@w3.org>" <public-svg-wg@w3.org<mailto:public-svg-wg@w3.org>>
Date: 07/23/2013 04:28 PM
Subject: Re: DOM Mutation Events

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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger
<schwer@us.ibm.com<mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com>> wrote:
> I am looking at ineract.html. Is there a reason that the DOM Mutation Events
> are listed for the SVG DOM? From what I recall, mutation events, are usually
> generated in a browse layer outside the DOM for performance reasons. I am
> not sure we need to be including these for SVG Web App. developers.  ... Is
> anyone using these in the wild?

Further, note that Mutation Events are being phased out of the web.
We (Blink) are casually considering eventually just removing them
entirely, as it would simplify a lot of complicated code.

Mutation Observers are the correct way to respond to changes.

~TJ