Antoine Quint:
> I took a look at the archives and did not see any discussion so far
> about adding mouse capture capabilities. In my experience of
> designing UI widgets in SVG, mouse capture is absolutely essential in
> order to provide to the user an experience similar to that he/she
> would be used to in "traditional" native platform applications. In
> the Adobe SVG Viewer, a captureMouse() method allows, following a
> mousedown event, to hijack all mouse events in the system and
> redirect them to a single event handler, making it so that any other
> mouse event handlers registered on other elements do not get
> triggered, etc. Capture is automatically released once the user
> releases the mouse button ("mouseup"), wherever it is, not just on
> top of the main browser window. While I don't have much experience
> with it, I've been told that IE has similar capabilities with its
> setCapture() method.
>
> Both these methods are proprietary of course, and it would be useful
> to have a standard way to express this capability.
The startMouseCapture/stopMouseCapture methods from the SVG 1.2 Full
draft work well, too, in my experience of creating some widgets with
SVG.
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