Re: roadmap for new CSS specs: template, grid, regions and floats

On Mar 11, 2011, at 11:23 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:

> As of #2 – non-rectangular shapes.
>  
> I think we should have more generic mechanism of defining such things.
> E.g. I have multiple requests to provide mechanism in CSS that will allow to
> define shapes like tabs here:
> http://harmonia.terrainformatica.com/lib/exe/detail.php?id=start&media=harmonia.png
>  
> Ideally it should be common mechanism that will allow to define border and
> content outline shapes in the same CSS-ish way.

That looks like something that is well suited to border-images or multiple backgrounds. They don't affect the click region, but that can be an advantage for tabs, so that you don't punish the user for a near miss.