Re: Targetting Filter Effects

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org> wrote:

> I think that's a good idea, but there's the issue of canned filters -
> filters
> that don't use url() to reference an SVG filter. I think we should probably
> have
> canned filters to make common cases easy for authors, but then if you have
> no
> SVG filter your idea doesn't help those cases. Perhaps a 'filter-input'
> property
> could be added, and in the case of an SVG filter that property could be
> ignored.
> Better yet, we could have another keyword for SVG filters saying to use the
> value of that property (SpecifiedInput?). That way SVG filters could be
> made
> more target agnostic, allowing the consumer to selectively applied them to
> the
> part of the element that they want. That would seem desirable, especially
> for
> libraries of filters.
>

We should add support for passing parameters to filters from the CSS
'filter' property (see thread on www-style), then input image names could be
passed as parameters.

Rob
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