Re: fill and stroke properties with CSS <image> values

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:
> Cameron McCormack wrote:
>>> I think it's going to be kind of unobvious that you need to use
>>> image(color) for the common case of putting a colour underneath a
>>> hatch pattern.  For example not being able to write:
>>>
>>> fill: yellow, url(#diagonalhatch);
> Dirk Schulze wrote:
>>
>> This example doesn’t make sense. You the last specified layer is the
>> last layer to draw. In your case you would not see diagonal hatch
>> because you fill the are with yellow right after it.
>
> Oh, because in 'background' the list of background layers goes from
> front to back, I see.  I forgot that.  Why is that the case again? :)

Because that's the way that makes sense to non-implementors.  Nobody
cares about the painting order, they care about the visual order, and
'background' puts the first visual layer you see first in the list.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 3 February 2014 17:26:55 UTC