- From: Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org>
- Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:48:49 +0100
- To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- CC: www-dom@w3.org
On 05/10/2010 19:10, Charles Pritchard wrote: > On 10/5/2010 3:06 AM, Jonathan Watt wrote: >> Proposal: >> >> To make life easier for authors I'd like to propose the addition of a >> 'getCoordsAt' method to the MouseEvent interface. This method would be passed >> the element at which the local coordinates of the event are required, and return >> an object implementing the SVGPoint interface[1] (or a new interface >> implementing 'x' and 'y' properties). > > Do you see this proposal applying to more than just SVG elements? Yes. I mentioned CSS-transforms and HTML in my email and in the comments in the demo's source. > Something like this would make coordinate management in interactive > canvas-based elements easier as well. > > As CSS and SVG become more closely integrated (reintegrated), is it > likely that CSS transforms will deprecate existing SVG transformations? Whether that happens or not, a transform will still exist, so... > And if so, will this proposal remain as useful? ...yes. Jonathan
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