- From: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:50:52 -0700
- To: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Oct 5, 2009, at 6:14 AM, Øyvind Stenhaug wrote:
> The convertPointFromPageToNode and convertPointFromNodeToPage
> functions take a Node as their first parameter. Since there are at
> least 12 node types this means they don't just accept elements, but
> also things like attribute nodes and comment nodes, for which the
> function descriptions don't really make sense. It's also possible to
> have a node that's not part of a document tree. The specification
> should say what happens in these cases.
>
> A related suggestion is to have these functions on an extension to
> the Element interface instead (though that still leaves the case of
> e.g. document.createElement('div').convertPoint[...]).
I think these methods would sit better as part of the CSSOM View
module (http://www.w3.org/TR/cssom-view/), which, in general, needs to
become more transform-aware.
Simon
Received on Monday, 5 October 2009 22:51:27 UTC