- From: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 19:55:22 +0000
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- CC: Brendan Kenny <bckenny@gmail.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Brad Kemper: > > Brad Kemper: > >> And as I've said in the past, spread is not something created in > >> order to simulate some phenomenon observed in nature. It is intended > >> to give greater control of the placement and extent of the shadow at > >> a level consistent with what is commonly available when creating > >> shadows in familiar ways using tools such Photoshop. > > > > Is this the only place in CSS3 that gives authors a way to apply such an > shape-derivation effect? > > No. The shape of the inside of a border is different from the shape of the > outside of the border, in the same sort of way. 'Outline-offset' should do the > same sort of offsetting to border-radius (but in practice doesn't seem to pay > attention to border-radius at all yet). Ah, so if shadow became just a scaling then the (Photoshop-esque) spread effect could still be achieved with multi-element border shenanigans (which is still better than bitmaps, IMO)? - Brian
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