On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems that when you access the background, you start to do blending. > Can't we move the functionality of BackgroundImage and BackgroundAlpha to > the CSS compositing spec? > > In SVG today, it seem like overlapping functionality that should be fixed. > No, exposing BackgroundImage and BackgroundAlpha to filters enables all kinds of effects that can't be reduced to compositing operators. (E.g., blurring or displacement mapping of the background.) Rob -- "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." [Acts 17:11]
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