- From: Ian Hickson <ianh@netscape.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 06:27:12 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: Matthew Brealey <webmaster@richinstyle.com>
- cc: www-style@w3.org
On 16 Oct 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote: > > The CSS3 UI proposal doesn't cater for modern user interfaces. True. We need something like the 'Window' colour type and the 'Dialog' border type but for backgrounds. > Skinnable UIs, such as that of KDE (http://www.kde.org) require effects > more advanced than those that CSS can currently produce. For instance, > graphical window decorations are need to do UI borders, but CSS doesn't > support support anything but plain styles. Check CSS3 proposals again. > Similarly fade effects: although I wouldn't necessarily expect CSS UAs > to be required to support all the filters (more in KDE2) and fades that > KDE does, at the least CSS3 should include horizontal and vertical two- > colour fades (some versions of Windows use these as their title bars, > for example). This is what SVG should do. > In addition, background stretching is vital [this was proposed about a > year ago] - most people stretch their background images to fit their > desktop. I have frequently proposed 'background-size', which has not met with any disagreement as far as I can remember. Note that most complex composite looks, such as multiple backgrounds, can be achieved using XSLT to give the stylesheet more elements to style, although David Baron and I have proposed ::inside and ::outside to make this easier (see archives). -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Netscape, Standards Compliance QA /. `- ' ( `--' +1 650 937 6593 `- , ) - > ) \ irc.mozilla.org:Hixie _________________________ (.' \) (.' -' __________
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