Re: [css3-backgrounds] Should a non-zero border-radius create a new stacking context ?

I think it should be relatively easy to implement this without a major code
complexity penalty and without a performance penalty for pages that do not
use border-radius with non-visible 'overflow'. You already have to track
clip rects for the children of the element with non-visible 'overflow'. So
extend the abstraction from 'clip rect' to 'clip rect or the intersection of
a list of clip paths'.

I disagree with the argument that we should ease the implementation burden
by inducing a stacking context because we did for opacity < 1. I think we
induce a stacking context for opacity < 1 not because of implementation
issues, but because group opacity is meaningless if the elements in the
group are not contiguous in z-order ... at least, I don't know of any
rational way it could be defined.

I agree that making non-visible 'overflow' induce a stacking context would
have been a good idea, but it's too late now. Given we have to deal with
interleaving of clipped and non-clipped content, generalizing the clipping
shapes without adding strange new side effects seems the most reasonable
thing to do.

Rob
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