Re: [css-text] text-shadow and inset

We have pretty good interoperability across browsers with the current syntax and the current syntax should be compatible with the inset extended syntax. I think it is a good idea to have inset shadow, but would rather push it to level 4.

Greetings,
Dirk

On Jul 26, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Due to persistent developer requests, we're planning on implementing
>> 'inset' for text-shadow in Blink.
> 
> Assuming this does the same thing that 'inset' does on box-shadow, +1
> from the web developer's perspective.  There are desirable effects
> which are nigh-impossible to get without it, such as the appearance of
> "letterpress" type (that is, each letter depressed below the 'surface'
> of the display).
> 
> However, with my Gecko hat on, I have no idea whether this would be
> difficult for us to implement. :-/
> 
> zw
>

Received on Friday, 26 July 2013 19:52:07 UTC