Re: [css3-ui] what to do if outline-offset is sufficiently negative (issue 38) from Brad Kemper on 2014-11-25 (www-style@w3.org from November 2014)

From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:53:05 -0800
To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, "kennyluck@csail.mit.edu" <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <3D392054-7D69-4B04-8DD7-2DE63E71A84D@gmail.com>

On Nov 24, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote:

>> Or just let the outline disappear once the offsets would overlap each other in either dimension. Just as if you had something like 'box-shadow: 0 0 0 20px white inset, 0 0 0 21px black inset', the visible part of the black shadow disappears at smaller box sizes.
> 
> That’s possible indeed, but I don’t think I prefer it, as this risk to cause accidentally disappearing outlines, causing usability or accessibility issues

Is it worse than having the outline be a rectangle in the middle of the button, covering up the button's text?

Received on Tuesday, 25 November 2014 01:53:33 UTC