RE: mousewheel support proposal (for SVG) from Thierry Kormann on 2002-04-30 (www-dom@w3.org from April to June 2002)

From: Thierry Kormann <tkormann@ilog.fr>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:38:13 +0200
To: "Curt Arnold" <carnold@houston.rr.com>
Cc: <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-ID: <EGECJAFKOPPEMLJGHNDNAECPCEAA.tkormann@ilog.fr>

> It is unnecessary to add a new interface to support mouse wheel events,
> since the detail attribute of MouseEvent could be used to represent wheel
> rotation.  I think keeping within the confines of the MouseEvent would be
> preferrable.

As I have already said somewhere on a mailing list, we can *not* use
detailArg for mousehwheel because according to '1.6.2. Mouse event types' in
the DOM Level 2 Events module, interface MouseEvent.

"detailArg of type long
Specifies the Event's mouse click count."

Thierry.

Received on Tuesday, 30 April 2002 11:39:45 UTC