Re: [whatwg] "resize" events on elements

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 23, 2015, at 5:40 PM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> 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).
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>> 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.
>
> I would like it be an async event on an element although we might want it to fire earlier than setTimeout(~, 0) to avoid FOC (maybe the same timing as rAF?).  I don't think end-of-microtask makes sense as that may force too many layouts.

Yeah, you almost certainly want to tie it to rAF timing.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 24 February 2015 05:34:54 UTC