Re: Tangent Angle At A Path Point

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/