Can click through whitespace of panel that has "background-color: transparent" -> losing focus

[Jaywalker]

Hey,

I do have a panel over Firefox's main window. The panel has a
transparent background. unfortunately you can now click through the
panel on the UI elements below it (when clicking on white-space), or
if the panel is above a text field, the cursor will change.

This is obviously by design and probably makes sense in many
situations, but doesn't make sense in others. Is there a W3C-
definition that "transparent" means like "air" and not like "glass"
concerning the focus?

Is there a way to make a transparent panel, that won't lose focus when
clicking on white-space?

Thanks a lot!
Cheers.

p.s. same goes for rgba(x,x,x,0).

[fantasai]

There's been a proposal to expand the SVG pointer-events property
to apply to HTML. WebKit has implemented this already. I've created
a wiki page for it here, hopefully the details will wind up in a
spec reasonably soon.
http://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/pointer-events

In XUL there might be other ways to do this.. but I'm not familiar
with XUL at all.

~fantasai

[Neil]

fantasai wrote:

> In XUL there might be other ways to do this.. but I'm not familiar
> with XUL at all.

You're probably thinking of the "mousethrough" attribute which roc had
to reimplement as part of his display lists so he'd know exactly how it
works.

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[Robert O'Callahan]

On 1/8/09 9:06 AM, fantasai wrote:
> There's been a proposal to expand the SVG pointer-events property
> to apply to HTML. WebKit has implemented this already. I've created
> a wiki page for it here, hopefully the details will wind up in a
> spec reasonably soon.
> http://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/pointer-events

Jonathan Watt is implementing this as we speak.

Rob