Re: 'scroll' and 'resize' events

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:47, William Edney<bedney@technicalpursuit.com> wrote:
> Folks -
> Not sure this is relevant, but I'm tracking/contributing to the following
> two bugs around 'resize' events:
> One for Mozilla:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227495
> and one for Webkit:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17969
> The reason I point these out is that, in both cases, implementors are asking
> for better definitions of how these events should work (i.e. when they
> should fire, etc. etc.) Absent any formal definition, the intent for both
> camps is to just 'write up' how IE handles onresize at the 'element' level
> and implement that (not sure if Opera supports onresize on elements,
> sorry...). The important point here is that, since 'resize' is an
> Element-level event, it should operate if CSS changes modify the size of the
> element, not just when the window resizes.

I started writing tests for this and wrote down some notes but I got
side tracked with more important work.

The main thing that came out of my tests is that onresize fires when
the reflow is done. This is very important because it allows changing
the width and height multiple times and only one event is ever fired.

Another important thing to remember is that onresize does not bubble.

Even though my tests and notes are far from complete I'll try to post
them somewhere public.


> On a related issue, what that leads to (i.e. 'resize' events getting fired
> upon CSS rule application) in my mind is the definition by this group of one
> or more events that would get fired when an element's computed (not
> necessarily inline) CSS value for any particular property gets changed. In
> IE, you can observe changes of any property of an element (including style
> changes) via the 'onpropertychange' event and then use currentStyle (W3
> equivalent: getComputedStyle()) to get the new value.
> So something like a 'CSSValueChanged' event that can be attached to an
> Element node.
> Note that this is not the same as observing 'DOMAttrModified' on an
> element's 'style' attribute, nor should it be, IMO.
> Any thoughts?
> Cheers,
> - Bill
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:56:43 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> As mentioned on IRC, it would be cool if the CSSOM spec could define when
>
> to fire 'scroll' and 'resize' events.
>
> If there's a particular place I should log this so that whoever takes
>
> over that spec doesn't lose this feedback, let me know.
>
> For people following this thread: This is now logged in the CSS WG issue
> tracker by Ian as that is the group working on the CSSOM.
>
>
> --
> Anne van Kesteren
> http://annevankesteren.nl/
>
>
>



-- 
erik

Received on Thursday, 25 June 2009 02:06:32 UTC