- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:36:34 -0700
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>, public-svg-wg@w3.org, Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>
Received on Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:37:01 UTC
On Jun 18, 2014 7:29 AM, "Chris Lilley" <chris@w3.org> wrote: > However, one difference between an ordinary image format and a cursor > format is that a cursor also defines the coordinates of the hotspot > (the place where the cursor points). As an example, a cursor shape > which is an arrow pointing to the upper left would have the hotspot in > the upper left at the point of the arrow. A cursor which is like a > crosshair would have the hotspot in the middle of the crosshairs. > > Thus, rather than pointing to the image file directly, SVG introduced > a cursor element with two attributes, x and y, which are the hotspot > coordinates and a third attribute to point to the actual image. > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG10/interact.html#CursorElement > > So you could make a cursor from a PNG (or indeed from an SVG). > > (All of that is explained by the first two paragraphs of 16.8.3 The > 'cursor' element, but maybe the above explanation helps). Of course, the 'cursor' property also allows manually specifying the hotspot, and defines the interaction with native hotspots. ~TJ
Received on Wednesday, 18 June 2014 16:37:01 UTC