I think the "branching off" can be regarded better as "experiments." Probably everybody wants transparency, but defining the proper way to do it not so easy. But opacity will be part of CSS3, since now that SVG has defined the property (see http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/masking.html#OpacityProperty), it was easy to apply it to applications than graphics as well (see the color module: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color#transparency) Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos/ W3C/INRIA bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, FranceReceived on Wednesday, 28 March 2001 03:31:40 GMT
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