- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:21:08 -0500
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:39 PM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> I'm gradually coming around to Webkit's approach, which appears to be >> that "background" becomes a generic consumer for paint-servers, and >> can be applied to anything. That's why Webkit has >> background-clip:text, which makes a background only fill the area that >> text normally does. You could also add the value "border" to >> background-clip if you wanted to just fill the border region with a >> gradient. > > I don't think we're going to adopt background-clip: text as the > solution for gradient/image-backed text. See > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0308.html > and Hyatt's response: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0066.html > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0297.html Slightly behind the times here, Fantasai. ^_^ I already split that out into another conversation, with Hyatt chipping in, where it was agreed that it sounded like the best solution was to extend webkit's text-fill property to be similar to background. ~TJ
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