Great to see this going in!

Hopefully we can make progress on DOMMatrix in the near future so authors
can avoid parsing strings with CSS transforms.


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> DOMRect, DOMPoint and DOMQuad are defined in the Geometry Interfaces spec:
> http://dev.w3.org/fxtf/geometry/Overview.html
> GeometryUtils is defined in the CSSOM View spec:
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom-view/#geometry
> The spec for the GeometryUtils methods is quite incomplete but we've
> discussed the syntax and semantics in www-style and reached consensus
> AFAIK. If there are unresolved issues, they would be for edge cases
> unlikely to be hit by Web authors.
>
> I am unaware of other engine plans to implement these APIs, but I am also
> unaware of any objections. Tab Atkins (Google), Simon Pieters (Opera) and
> Rik Cabanier (Adobe) were all involved in the design discussions and I
> believe they all approve of the current design.
>
> These are implemented in bugs 917755 and 918189. DOMPoint and DOMQuad are
> behind independent prefs, default on. DOMRect is not behind a pref because
> the interface already exists (with a bit less functionality). getBoxQuads
> and the convert*FromNode functions are behind prefs, currently defaulting
> to on in non-release builds. But I expect to switch them to default-on as
> soon as the spec is updated, which will hopefully happen in the next few
> weeks so this can ship in FF31.
>
> FYI these methods subsume the functionality of WebkitPoint and
> webkitConvertPointFromPageToNode/FromNodeToPage, which are used by some
> mobile applications and currently have no Gecko equivalent. They are also
> wanted by devtools.
>
> Rob
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