- From: Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:08:39 +1100
- To: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Cc: www-style CSS <www-style@w3.org>
On 06/10/2009, at 9:50 AM, Simon Fraser wrote:
> 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.
I've just noted in the specification that convertPoint* should be part
of CSSOM View.
Anne or Øyvind - since Opera seems to be looking after that spec, do
you have any proposals for how this should appear?
Dean
Received on Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:09:16 UTC