Re: New methods to support interactivity

IE10+ has msElementsFromPoint. I think the plan is to unprefix this soon.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Paul LeBeau <paul.lebeau@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Microsoft has msElementsFromRect that will hopefully be implemented more
> widely because it's quite useful.
>
> Interestingly, msElementsFromRect() behaves a little differently from
> element(s)FromPoint.  It includes elements that have "pointer-events=none".
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 23 July 2015 at 09:41, Philip Rogers <pdr@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Both Chrome and IE/Edge support elementsFromPoint() on SVG elements, as
>> it's defined on Document.
>>
>> Microsoft has msElementsFromRect that will hopefully be implemented more
>> widely because it's quite useful.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Amelia Bellamy-Royds <
>> amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps we need a reply from the Firefox team explaining why the
>>> existing methods to do this (enclosure/intersection)[1][2] were never
>>> implemented?
>>>
>>> Can the spec be made more clear? Are there simpler solutions which would
>>> address the problem without performance issues or implementation
>>> difficulties?
>>>
>>> I think the other browsers all have implementations, but I've never used
>>> the methods enough (because of the lack of Firefox support) to know whether
>>> they are buggy or not.
>>>
>>> ~ABR
>>>
>>> [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#InterfaceSVGSVGElement
>>> [2]: https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/struct.html#InterfaceSVGSVGElement
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22 July 2015 at 14:28, Paul LeBeau <paul.lebeau@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry. Forget I said anything. I forgot about the enclosure and
>>>> intersection calls on SVGSVGElement.
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 22 July 2015 at 22:40, Paul LeBeau <paul.lebeau@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As SVG takes off more and more, I believe there is a need for better
>>>>> ways to interact with documents.  At the moment interaction is pretty
>>>>> limited.  We only have mouse in/out events, CSS hover and
>>>>> Document.elementFromPoint().
>>>>>
>>>>> Several times in recent weeks people have asked on StackOverflow for
>>>>> ways to detect which elements are under the pointer.  At the moment, the
>>>>> only way to do that is with elementFromPoint().  But that has limitations.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the moment some simple interactivity tasks are impossible, or
>>>>> require ugly hacks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another common task is to select lines/edges in a chart.  The best
>>>>> solution we have at the moment is to add invisible fat lines over the top
>>>>> of the real ones.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think it would be nice to add some more methods to enable better
>>>>> interactivity. For example:
>>>>>
>>>>> elementsFromPoint
>>>>>     Get all elements under a point
>>>>>
>>>>> elementsWithinBox
>>>>>     Get all elements that intersect with the given BBox.
>>>>>
>>>>> pointInPath / pointInShape
>>>>>     Return true if a point is within the fill (or stroke?) of a shape
>>>>>
>>>>> etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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