Re: Updated Filters 1.0 editor's draft

On 31/08/2011, at 2:17 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote:
>> - Added drop-shadow shorthand
> 
> Elika and I have been advocating an approach for functions where, when
> possible, the contents are just normal CSS values.  Explicit
> comma-separated argument lists should only be used when necessary for
> disambiguation.  In particular, this would mean that blur() can
> probably drop the commas and just accept one or two space-separated
> lengths, and drop-shadow() can drop the commas and just use <shadow>,
> perhaps with a restriction that you can't provide the 'input' keyword
> (text-shadow does this).  Gamma and unsharp can potentially drop the
> commas as well.

Sure. I'll make those changes.

> As a sidenote, while I understand the historic reasoning behind the
> name of the unsharp() function, it's really super-confusing to have
> something that sharpens an image be named "unsharp".  Could we change
> this to just "sharpen" or something?

Yes, I think that makes sense too.

Dean