- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:28:41 -0800
- To: Philip Rogers <pdr@google.com>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>, Jacob Rossi <Jacob.Rossi@microsoft.com>, David Bokan <bokan@google.com>
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Philip Rogers <pdr@google.com> wrote: > www-style, > > The elementsFromPoint (plural) spec [1] is ambiguous about whether elements > with pointer-events: none should be returned. Can we update the spec to > explicitly allow pointer-events: none elements? > > I think it makes sense to return all elements and have this be a > general-purpose API. I spoke with a front-end developer on the polymer team > and they agreed because typical usecases already need to filter out unwanted > elements. The IE team may have come to the same conclusion as > msElementsFromPoint also includes pointer-events: none elements. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/cssom-view/#extensions-to-the-document-interface Does this mean that the pointer-events values other than normal|none also have no effect, and elementsFromPoint always pretends the value is "auto"? This only applies to SVG elements, but still. I can see the point of that, but I can also see it being useful for it to match elements that you'd actually hit-test against. Maybe a flag? ~TJ
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