- From: Michael A. Peters <mpeters@domblogger.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:17:28 -0800
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 02/23/2015 05:40 PM, Dean Jackson wrote: > At the recent Houdini meeting there was a vague agreement between the browser engines on adding a way for elements to be notified when their size changes. We've run into a number of scenarios where this is extremely useful, and is otherwise difficult or annoying (e.g. checking your size on a timer). > > The idea was to allow the resize event on elements. I don't really care what the solution is, so maybe someone here can come up with a better idea (size observers?). And of course there are a lot of details to be worked out. > > If we settle on a solution fairly soon I will implement it in WebKit nightly builds so people can play. > > Dean > Yes, I desperately need this! Right now I have to try to trigger off of a bunch of things that can change the size of the parent (e.g. a details node opening or closing) - it would be much easier to just have a resize event on the parent node itself.
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