[whatwg] Passing mouse events through the transparent parts of a <canvas> tag

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Tue Dec 8 09:24:36 PST 2009


On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:

> Indeed. We've talked about using this CSS property as a way to let
> only the non-transparent parts of an image receive events.
> Unfortunately if I recall correctly none of the currently defined
> values of pointer-events fit that behavior, but the intent would be to
> add one. In any case I think this CSS property is the way to add the
> feature you want, and so the discussion is probably best had on the
> www-style mailing list.
>

www-svg would be better, since it's an SVG property.

Rob
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