Re: createBlobURL

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
>>> Like I said, I think creating an OM that covers all the cases here
>>> would create something very complex. I'd love to see a useful proposal
>>> for <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/>.
>>
>> It doesn't seem overly difficult.  Using the proposed Values API,
>> you'd do something like "elem.style.values.backgroundImage.url =
>> [DOMURL goes here]".
>
> That doesn't cover nearly all the ways you can use URLs as defined in
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/ which support multiple levels of
> fallback images, with snapping and resolution as well as gradients and
> fallback colors. And with used in a property like backgroundImage, you
> can have several combined instances of those. Consider:
>
> style="background-image: image(sun.svg, 'sun.png' snap 150dpi),
> image(wavy.svg, 'wavy.png' 150dpi, 'wavy.gif', radial-gradient(...))"

This would be part of the <url> interface, and would be accepted
anywhere a <url> is currently accepted.  Exposing the correct
interface of function arguments would be a job for the function
interface in the Values API, and is designed to be orthogonal.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 00:57:33 UTC