- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:58:18 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
I also agree with fantasai and Tab. I would not want a "quarter-circle- cornered rectangle" turned into an oval, except as as last resort (a square box would eventually become a circle, but at least the corner shapes are maintained). Sent from my iPhone On Jul 21, 2009, at 2:14 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:46 PM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net > > wrote: >> Håkon Wium Lie wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> Opera, however, doesn't cap the radii but attempts to honor them. I >>> can see many uses for the elliptic expressions that this behavior >>> allows. The spec, instead, will leave us with many stadium-like >>> borders, as can be seen in the two leftmost Firefox renditions. >> >> If you want an elliptic look, then set the two corner radii to two >> different values. The goal of the formula is to preserve the shape >> of the curve: if you want a different shape you should specify a >> different shape. > > I'm with fantasai - I prefer that my corners respect the shape I set > them to, even if that means they can't respect the *size* I set them > to.
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