- From: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:31:33 +0000
- To: Lev Solntsev <greli@mail.ru>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Lev Solntsev: > Hello! > > Now CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 working draft says > that you can specify color only on final background layer. It could be > reasonable because one can see nothing under the solid colored > background. But there is one option that left forgotten: semi-transparent > colors, which can be defined with hsla or rgba. > > Imagine, I may want to place a picture on background, then blend it by > semitransparent black or white, and place some picture on top. I can't > do it now with current background syntax and I believe that the specification > must allow this scenario. > >Of course, I can fake semitransparent color by a special cooked picture but is it what CSS is called to avoid, isn't it? Hi! :) The "now" part confuses me a little. I think that's been there for 2-3 years at this point. Some related prior discussion: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0381.html
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