- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:05:52 -0800
- To: "Philip TAYLOR" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
Beg my pardon, Philip, but may ask you a question: what kind of message this naive box-shadow will help you to "....deliver the message...." ? Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com From: "Philip TAYLOR" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk> > > > Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > > [snip] > > > Conclusion #1: Having border-image feature implemented, shadows will be > > rendered using border images in most of the cases. > > [snip] > > > There are many ways to draw antialiased lines and curves. > > Professional web design will never rely on them. Border images > > will be used instead. > > > > For me 'box-shadow' and 'border-radius' and the way they are defined > > looks like a naive attempt to provide a "cool features" which will be > > used only by "naive designers". Real professionals will never use them. > > And so "real professionals" will continue to produce image- (and hence > bandwidth/download-time) intensive pages which annoy the hell out > of most of us, whilst the non-professionals will continue to produce > lightweight, effective, pages that load in a fraction of the time, > look /almost/ as good, and deliver the message. So be it. Sounds > just fine to me. > > Philip Taylor >
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