- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:27:27 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: robert@ocallahan.org, Philippe Wittenbergh <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:29, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh >> <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com> wrote: >>> What should happen when the user hovers over the ellipsis when the clipped >>> string is part of a link ? IOW, does the ellipsis become part of the link or >>> does the 'box' generated by the ellipsis cover the link (and blocks hit >>> testing on said link) ? >>> >>> Implementations disagree with WebKit and IE (tested IE 8) on one side, >>> Opera and Firefox nightly on the other. >> >> More accurately, Firefox simply ignores the ellipsis for the purpose of >> dispatching mouse events. > > This is the best behavior imo, as the ellipsis is "generated content", > and generated content generally doesn't participate in mouse events > beyond the interaction pseudoclasses that CSS defines. Thanks RoC and Tab, I have updated the spec accordingly to explicitly note that ellipsing must not affect dispatching of pointer events. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-ui/#text-overflow Tantek -- http://tantek.com/ - I made an HTML5 tutorial! http://tantek.com/html5
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