Ian Hickson: > This seems like a bug. It seems like we would want to address this > directly rather than requiring authors to disable iframes when doing drags > (especially since that wouldn't help with things like plugins or > whatever). Wouldn't the better solution be to provide some sort of > mechanism to say that while the mouse button is down, all the mouse move > events should go to the element that got the mousedown event?
The old SVG 1.2 Full draft had a pair of methods (which are implemented in Batik), startMouseCapture()/ stopMouseCapture(), that could be used to do this kind of thing. -- Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
