- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:56:12 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 10/02/2013 11:48 AM, Alan Stearns wrote:
> On 10/2/13 9:20 AM, "fantasai" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
>
>> On 10/01/2013 08:15 PM, Alan Stearns wrote:
>>
>>> And what do you mean by handling rectangle() similarly? I'd really like
>>> to
>>> see some sample declarations.
>>
>> rectangle( <size> [ at <position> ]? )
>>
>> inset-rectangle( <offset>{1,4} ) /* handle like margin shorthand */
>
> I was going to have a summary email (we appear to agree on the current
> polygon syntax and removing commas in the others, the remainder is between
> the current spec and a new gradient-style syntax)
>
> But as I was describing how gradient-style syntax would work with
> rectangles (which is a new thing, so we'll need to run it through the
> grinder) I came across the <position> variant that uses four arguments.
> The rectangle functions need to include corner radii as well, so it would
> be ambiguous whether rectangle() with six arguments was describing the
> complicated <position> or adding radii. And it would be ambiguous in
> inset-rectangle() whether the arguments referred to offsets or radii.
>
> So these two functions would look more like:
>
> rectangle( <size>? [ at <position> ]? [ radii <radius>{1,2} ]? )
>
> inset-rectangle( <offset>{1,4} [ radii <radius>{1,2} ]? )
>
> (where <radius> is one of those common <length> | <percentage> thingies)
>
> This seems to be getting a bit keyword-heavy. While I see the appeal of
> using the gradient syntax for circle(), I'm not sure it cleanly extends to
> rectangle()
Hmm, good point. The three-value background positioning syntax is really
causing parsing problems. :/ Too bad we didn't realize that sooner...
Could've just allowed 2 or 4 and that would solve this problem. :/
Anyway, how about using the keyword 'round' instead? We could extend
that later to provide other shape keywords (like 'bevel'), so in the
future it would just be a required argument rather than a marker.
~fantasai
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