[whatwg] [web-apps] Ability to treat transparent part of element transparent to events

[Jim Ley]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:47:11 -0500, Matthew Raymond
<mattraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:
> martijnw wrote:
> > See:
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102695 - Treat some
> > transparent elements as "transparent to events"
>    I think that CSS3 would be a better target for this, and thus it
> should probably be addressed on the W3C www-style mailing list:

I agree.

> CSS:
> | #special-shape {
> |   background-image: url(special.png);
> |   crop: background;
> | }

re-use the appropriate parts from how it's done in SVG maybe:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/interact.html#PointerEventsProperty

Jim.