- From: Sebastian Zartner <sebastianzartner@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:44:06 +0100
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Received on Monday, 29 October 2012 06:50:37 UTC
document.elementFromPoint() and document.caretPositionFromPoint() are defined to use hit testing to return the uppermost element resp. a range related to it at a specific viewport point[1]. My question is now, what to do when you want to get elements lying under it? Therefore I suggest that these functions should be replaced by functions returning all elements under that specific point sorted descending by their z-order. Also their current names don't comply with the naming of similar functions like document.getElementsByName(). So I'd say they should be renamed to document.getElementsFromPoint() and document.getCaretPositionsFromPoint(). For reference: I already mentioned these points in another thread[2][3]. Sebastian [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/cssom-view/#extensions-to-the-document-interface [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Oct/0702.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Oct/0757.html
Received on Monday, 29 October 2012 06:50:37 UTC