Re: window.innerScreenX and window.innerScreenY

That is indeed a much better wording, though I think it is more appropriate
to add them before
https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#dom-window-innerwidth, in anaoigy with
https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#dom-window-screen
<https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#dom-window-screeny>x and
https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#dom-window-outerwidth .

Given that, what is the correct way to propose adding window.innerScreenX
and window.innerScreenY to the draft standard?
And what is the process for getting such a proposal approved/rejected?



2016-12-14 16:09 GMT+01:00 Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org>:

> Le 2016-12-13 08:46, Jan Norden a écrit :
>
>> There is currently no good way of translation a position in a browser to a
>> position on the screen.
>>
>
> Jan,
>
> Let me rephrase what I believe you were trying to say here, like this:
> there is currently no possible way of getting (retrieving) window's
> viewport (or client area) x and y coordinates of a browser in relation to
> the (operating system) screen area.
>
> Our particular need is translating a gaze-position
>> (which we have in screen coordinates from our eyetracking hardware).
>>
>> It is possible in Firefox, using the proprietary
>> mozInnerScreenX/mozInnerScreenY,
>> but not in general.
>>
>
> window.screenX
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Window/screenX
>
> window.mozInnerScreenX
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/mozInnerScreenX
>
> window.screenY
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Window/screenY
>
> window.mozInnerScreenY
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/mozInnerScreenY
>
>
> I added the mozInnerScreenX and mozInnerScreenY properties into an old
> webpage
>
> http://www.gtalbot.org/DHTMLSection/WindowEventsNS6.html
>
> and, as far as I can see, the mozInnerScreenX and mozInnerScreenY
> properties return the equivalent of IE's screenLeft and screenTop.
>
> "
> There is a major incompatibility between MSIE 5+ window.screenTop and NS
> 6+ window.screenY. MSIE 5+ calculates the distance from the top of the
> content area (client area) to the top side of the screen. NS 6+ calculates
> the distance from the top of the browser's window to the top side of the
> screen. There seems to be no way to figure out the height of chrome
> elements (menu bar, tools bar, address bar, links bar) present in the
> browser for MSIE 5+.
> "
> so, the addition of mozInnerScreenX and mozInnerScreenY properties makes
> sense.
>
> http://www.gtalbot.org/DHTMLSection/ScreenXYComparedScreenLeftTop.html
>
> IE6, IE7, IE8 supported window.screenLeft and window.screenTop which are,
> by definition, the equivalent of mozInnerScreenX and mozInnerScreenY. I
> presumed here that window.screenLeft and window.screenTop are still
> supported by IE9, IE10, IE11.
>
> window.screenLeft
> "Retrieves the x-coordinate of the upper left-hand corner of the window
> frame, relative to the upper left-hand corner of the screen."
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534389(v=vs.85).aspx
>
> window.screenTop
> "Retrieves the y-coordinate of the upper left-hand corner of the window
> frame, relative to the upper left-hand corner of the screen. "
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534390(v=vs.85).aspx
>
> Returning now to your initial statement, I believe there is a way of
> getting window's viewport (or client area) position of a browser in
> relation to the (operating system) screen area in Gecko-based browsers and
> in IE browsers. I do not know (I can not verify) if window.screenLeft and
> window.screenTop are supported in Edge12+ browsers but typically Microsoft
> does not remove proprietary attributes or properties of objects unless
> there is already a web standard (and widespread-used) equivalent. So I
> would presume that window.screenLeft and window.screenTop are supported in
> Edge12+ browsers too.
>
> From a web standards point of view, best would be to have and to use only
> 1 pair of property name (window.innerScreenX and window.innerScreenY, no
> moz prefix), to have Microsoft to drop window.screenLeft and
> window.screenTop and to include such pair of property names in
> CSSOM View Module
> https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/
> inside the §4. Extensions to the Window Interface, say, right after,
> https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#dom-window-screeny
>
> Gérard
>



-- 
/Jan Norden