- From: Helder Magalhães <helder.magalhaes@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:41:35 +0000
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: Francis Hemsher <fhemsher@gmail.com>, www-svg@w3.org
Hi everyone, > Here's a few sorts of things it would be nice to have a more complete > treatment of in the API: > * vectors > * matrixes (SVG has a pretty good treatment of these, but could be improved) > * lines > * angles > * planes (maybe? could be relevant in pseudo-3D transforms) > * intersection / collision detection > * ? > > What do people think? +1 for me as well. :-) I can predict a major push in heavy interactive applications (including games) by improving intersection/collision detection utility methods. Currently, implementations aren't well aligned yet with respect to this: WebKit is still missing it [1]. The planes item also seems applicable somehow in the same scope (I'm guessing it would mean methods for detecting what's under/above in the z-index stack). I'd really like to see increasingly more intuitively names for new interfaces/methods, as well as simpler/less cluttered ways to access/modify the DOM (the sexy "write less, do more" jQuery pick-up line [2] materialized into the standard methods)... :-) Have a nice weekend, Helder [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11274 [2] http://jquery.com/
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