- From: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:59:32 -0400
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 4/25/07 12:24 PM, "Jeff Schiller" <codedread@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/24/07, Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> Olivier GENDRIN wrote:
>>> But perhaps this should be done on the CSS side, as far it's a
>>> presentational issue...
>>
>> I would say so. In fact, I'd like to see something like this:
>>
>> | <img src="Image.png" alt="" style="crop: url('circle.svg')" />
>>
>> This would allow you to use the alpha values from images and and SVG
>> files to perform cropping of both images and other content.
>
> But if you're going to want to use SVG for this, then you'd be best to
> the whole thing today directly in SVG. i.e. the SVG would contain the
> "image.png" raster in an SVG:image element, then it would be masked by
> a circle (or whatever) such that the image is cropped. Then when you
> deploy this in your HTML it would be:
>
> <object type="image/svg+xml" data="cropped-image.svg" width="300"
> height="200">
> <img src="image.png" width="300" height="200"></img>
> </object>
>
> This would work today in browsers that support SVG and contain
> fallback for those that don't. In my mind, no need to invent a new
> HTML facility for this because my assumption is that all browsers will
> eventually support SVG (we're kind of waiting on Internet Explorer).
>
I vote for both ways.
<p style="crop: url(logo/IE8.svg); background:url(img/ie8bg.png);">
http://www.freeverse.com/lineform/img/features/text.gif
<p style="flowpath: url('circle.svg')" >
http://images.digitalmedianet.com/2003/12_dec/reviews/photoshopcs031222/20-t
extonapath.jpg
--
:: thyme online ltd
:: po box cb13650 nassau the bahamas
:: website: http://www.thymeonline.com/
:: tel: 242 327-1864 fax: 242 377 1038
Received on Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:59:40 UTC