- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:12:54 +0100
- To: Rick <graham.rick@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
* Rick wrote: >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20051207/painting.html states >> that elements with a computed value of the display property of 'none' do >> not receive events; this is a very bad idea, please remove this from the >> draft. The intent is probably to say that as such elements are not part >> of the rendering tree, they will not normally receive events that depend >> on the elements beeing part of the rendering tree, which is obvious. > >I believe the intent here was to state that these elements recieve no >pointer events, since they are not part of the 'rendering tree' and >therefore have no geometry to trap these events. Not that they are no >longer valid elements in the xml tree. > >http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20051207/painting.html#VisibilityControl > >I would suggest changing > if 'display' is set to none, the element receives no events; >to: > if 'display' is set to none, the element receives no pointer-events; This would still rule out using the standard DOM Events createEvent/ initEvent/dispatchEvent methods to dispatch such events to these event targets. While these features are not required by SVG Tiny 1.2, it seems unlikely that this was intended. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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