Re: SVG Masking under FXTF

We could introduce new CSS keywords that are similar to the background
syntax [1] and use them as masks.
Setting a 'mask-' property would establish a new stacking context.

There would also be a need for a new keyword like 'mask-style' so you can
specify auto, luminosity or alpha.

Rik

1:  http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-background-color

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> I just want to ad the blog post on Safari blog to -webkit-mask:
> http://www.webkit.org/blog/181/css-masks/
>
> If mask would take an URI as well and can differ between luminance and
> alpha mask, I think it could be quite useful for both the HTML and SVG
> world.
>
> Greetings,
> Dirk
>
> On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Rik,
> >
> > On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Dirk,
> >>
> >> do you think this makes sense? It seems like the model are very
> different (painter's algorithm vs css box model) so the solution will most
> likely not be the same.
> >> Or is it your intention to describe masking generally and then say how
> it applies to SVG and HTML like we did for the compositing spec?
> > I think it absolutely makes sense. This is quite similar to what we have
> in Filter Effects. The other way around it doesn't make sense to have to
> different specs that try to address the same use case. Both done with a
> masking property (even if it might be called different). You can already
> try it in Firefox right now.
> >
> >>
> >> I think's Tab's -element() syntax will be more compatible with masking
> than what SVG currently has.
> > This is a different approach and it seems to be very interesting in the
> context of SVG as well (as paint sever for instance). However, at the
> moment it has noting to do with masking. Masks can take element() as input
> image and it is planned to do so.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Dirk
> >
> >>
> >> Rik
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi SVG folks,
> >>
> >> I would like to discuss moving the SVG Masking part to a new spec, just
> like we did for Filter Effects and CSS Transforms. The CSS WG is looking
> into specifying masking as well. Because the last draft of SVG 2 does a lot
> of changes to masking which seem to be helpful on HTML as well, it might be
> the time to discuss these changes with the CSS WG. I would like to avoid
> repeating the same mistake on masking that was done on transforms initially.
> >>
> >> I add Ted in the CC list, since he wanted to look in specifying masking
> for the CSS WG.
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >> Dirk
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>