[whatwg] Suggested enhancement for initialization of mouse events

[Matthew Kaufman]

  On 9/14/2010 5:00 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>
> I'm not entirely sure that this is possible. As far as I know (and I 
> could be very wrong) the events start with the OS and work their way 
> down the system to eventually reach the Javascript through a user 
> agent, so if the mouse has moved off of the user agent (browser) then 
> it may not be possible to access the current coordinates. The browser 
> would only be aware of the coordinates that it was last passed by the 
> OS, i.e. only those in it's own window space. A browser could offer up 
> the last known coordinates, but if the cursor is beyond the region of 
> a browser window for example, then the browser would be passing across 
> the wrong values. This might not matter for most cases, but then 
> again, I can't foresee much use for having the coordinates of a cursor 
> that triggered no event. The only time a user agent might be aware of 
> the correct coordinates and no event would be triggered would be where 
> the cursor was over part of the user agent that wasn't the web page, 
> like the menubar, etc.
Even if the browser could tell you the mouse coordinates of a cursor 
that wasn't over the content/frame in question, doing so would be a 
serious security problem.

The only way this would make sense is for the omitted arguments to 
reflect the last mouse event you received... but that's more ugly than 
simply remembering them from that last event yourself.

Matthew Kaufman
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