945187 - Add support for "pointer-events: bounding-box"

Status: NEW

(Core :: SVG, enhancement, P2)

Description

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User Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; Edition Linux Mint) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16

Steps to reproduce:

There's no support for pointer-events: bounding-box in gecko.

Spec: https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/interact.html#PointerEventsProperty

Note that this makes container elements such as <g> targettable directly.

Comment 1

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

Support for this is now in Safari Tech Preview: https://webkit.org/blog/9658/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-96/

Comment 2

[Jon Harper]

According to https://docs.w3cub.com/browser_support_tables/pointer-events/
"Chrome 65+ supports the bounding-box value."

Chrome 65 was released on March 6, 2018

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Is there any chance we can get this added to get rid of the webcompat issue for Firefox? Or what's holding us back in adding it given that all other major browsers have support now.

Comment 4

[Sean Voisen (:svoisen)]

(In reply to Henrik Skupin (:whimboo) [⌚️UTC+2] from comment #3)

Is there any chance we can get this added to get rid of the webcompat issue for Firefox? Or what's holding us back in adding it given that all other major browsers have support now.

I'll add it to our backlog. I don't think anything is holding us back other than prioritization. Is it blocking important automation work?

heycam: Any reason not to do this?

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

For automation we have the workaround to click an actual element from within the group to trigger the click, and I assume that empty groups won't exist anyway.

Comment 6

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

Nothing stopping us from implementing this.

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Hi Jonathan, I would like to ask if there has been any changes in priority and if we still want to have this feature. It would be great to have for WebDriver. Thanks.

Comment 8

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

We could certainly bump this up to get it on the radar. Layout is planning on doing some SVG work in H1 next year.

Is this needed as part of some MoCo/MoFo work?

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

(In reply to Jonathan Watt [:jwatt] from comment #8)

We could certainly bump this up to get it on the radar. Layout is planning on doing some SVG work in H1 next year.

Thanks for considering.

Is this needed as part of some MoCo/MoFo work?

No we don't require it. It would only be a nice thing to get bug 1668488 fixed. But users should be able to live with the workaround.