Articles by roc
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Coordinate Conversion Made Easy – the power of GeometryUtils
In a previous post we introduced the GeometryUtils interface and the getBoxQuads() API for retrieving the CSS box geometry of a DOM node. GeometryUtils also takes care of another important problem: converting coordinates reliably from one DOM node to another. For example, you might want to find the bounding-box of one element relative to another […]
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Introducing the getBoxQuads API
Web developers often need to determine where an element has been placed in the page, or more generally, where it is relative to another element. Existing APIs for doing this have significant limitations. The new GeometryUtils interface and its supporting interfaces DOMPoint, DOMRect and DOMQuad provide Web-standard APIs to address these problems. Firefox is the […]
