Re: Transform Action Event Interface proposal

On 01/28/2011 02:12 PM, Ilkka Oksanen wrote:
> Hi Olli,
>
> Cathy is on holiday. Let me try to answer your questions.
>
> 19/01/2011 15:44, ext Olli Pettay kirjoitti:
>> have you thought how event targeting should work with transform
>> action events? I mean if user starts a tranformaction above element A
>> and then while doing the action user moves mouse/touch/whatever to
>> over element B, which element should be the target for the events.
>
> Our intention has been that all update and end events must be fired to
> the same target as the start event, i.e. the target will not change.
> This probably should be said more clearly in the proposal.
>
>> Also, what happens in cases when DOM is mutated; what if user starts
>> transformaction over element A, but during the action A is adopted to
>> a different document in a different window. Which element should be
>> the target in that case?
>>
>
> Same rule should apply to this case too.
>


That is quite...surprising. Have you thought of not doing that, but
add something similar to setCapture?

-Olli

Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2011 12:51:14 UTC