- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:29:17 +0100
- To: "WHAT Working Group" <whatwg@whatwg.org>, "Dean Jackson" <dino@apple.com>
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 02:40:10 +0100, 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). > > 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. I'd like to point out that the <video> element fires a resize event when the video resource changes size, per spec. I don't know if this is implemented by anyone, though; likely that event can be renamed. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content.html#the-video-element:event-media-resize -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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