sorry about responding to this old bug, but is there a modern polyfill for this? an old website i'm using requires this (and other deprecated WK functions) and i have found nothing to mitigate this issue.
On Monday, July 28, 2014 at 4:58:28 PM UTC-4 Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > Primary eng (and PM) emails > > phi...@opera.com > > Summary > Remove webkitConvertPointFromPageToNode() and > webkitConvertPointFromNodeToPage(). > > These are global functions, exposed on Window. > > Motivation > > They were added in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23943 to "map > points through possibly-transformed elements." At least the uses of them > in LayoutTests can be replaced with getBoundingClientRect(), which also > take transforms into consideration. The same is likely true of usage in the > wild, too. > > > These two functions are also the only APIs that depend on WebKitPoint, > paving the way for its eventual removal. > > Compatibility Risk > > The worst-case scenario is catastrophic failure of a WebKit-only site. > Given the usage, actual risk seems very low indeed. > > Alternative implementation suggestion for web developers > > Use element.getBoundingClientRect().left/top to get the offsets that these > functions would add/remove. > > > For example, webkitConvertPointFromNodeToPage(element, new > WebKitPoint(0,0)).x can be replaced by element.getBoundingClientRect().left. > > > Usage information from UseCounter > <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/third_party/WebKit/Source/core/page/UseCounter.h&sq=package:chromium&type=cs&q=file:UseCounter.h%20Feature&l=39> > webkitConvertPointFromPageToNode() ~0.0001%: > http://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/359 > webkitConvertPointFromNodeToPage() ~0.0002%: > http://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/360 > > Entry on chromestatus.com, crbug.com, or MDN > > None. > > Requesting approval to remove too? > Yes. Usage is negligible. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/079129f7-f6e8-4e86-ada8-98a4748598ddn%40chromium.org.
