Review of css-shapes-1

I haven't found much to say about CSS Shapes Level 1 [1]. The concepts are useful, and the examples are clear.

As always, I looked through my book collection to find examples of text wrapping around images. There were very few--even some highly designed books were either not wrapping text around objects at all, or they were simple rectangles that would work with float as specified today. The examples I did find were more complicated, where images were wrapping around each other. Since shapes don't affect float, that's not something under consideration here.

I know the case of text wrapping around text (as with drop caps) was raised on www-style. I see that as an important use case, but I think the full solution to that problem might belong to a formal drop cap proposal. I don't really want to draw polygons around letter outlines every time I use a new drop cap!

Dave

[1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-shapes/

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