Re: [Backgrounds/Borders] What to do when a border-image fails to load

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Andrew Fedoniouk
<news@terrainformatica.com> wrote:
> I have invented ':incomplete' state flag and pseudo-class for fall-back
> cases.
> It is "on" if some data requested by the DOM element is not loaded yet.
> "Component" here is an image background or foreground (image of <img>
> element) or content of the <frame> for example.
>
> Thus you could have
>
> #with-fancy-border
> {
>  border-image: ....;
>  border-width: 10px;
> }
>
> #with-fancy-border:incomplete
> {
>  border: 2px solid red;
> }
>
> Another state flag and pseudo-class named ':busy' is "on" if
> element's "data request queue" is not empty - it is still loading
> something.
>
> Beside of handling "border-image-is-not-available" case
> these two allow to style cases like "img data is not available"
>
> img:incomplete
> {
>   background-image:url(for-img-not-found.png);
>   width:xx;
>   height:yy;
> }
> img:incomplete:busy
> {
>   background-image:url(that-spinning-thing.apng);
> }

That'd certainly work for me.  So the :incomplete state can be based
off of CSS-triggered data loads too?

~TJ