- From: Jonathan Zuckerman <j.zuckerman@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:09:11 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Ah right.. would it be possible to compute the missing dimensions given a mouse event with screenX/Y and clientX/Y properties? On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:03 AM Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 12/13/16 8:46 AM, Jonathan Zuckerman wrote: > > Jan, does window.screenX/screenY not meet your needs? > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/screenX > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/screenY > > That doesn't work because it gives the screen position of the top/left > edge of the browser window, not of the content are the web page is > rendered into. So if you have a screen coordinate and you want to > translate it into page-relative coordinates, this won't do what you > want: you'll be off by the size of the window decorations and the > browser chrome. > > -Boris >
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