- From: (unknown charset) David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 18:47:34 -0700
- To: (unknown charset) "Ka-Ping Yee" <kpyee@aw.sgi.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
- Cc: (unknown charset) "Hakon Lie" <howcome@w3.org>
Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > If "shadow" is going to have possibly four or five parameters of > its own, maybe it should be its own property rather than a special > value of "text-decoration" which happens to take extra parameters. > So there might be "shadow-xoffset", "shadow-yoffset", and > "shadow-color". But there are really more than two levels of > grouping here, so maybe "text-shadow" would be more appropriate > than "shadow". Shadow for block elements and text-shadow for text? With the same shorthand for each? That seems right. Unlike underline, etc, drop shadow is not strictly a text decoration. Text shadow or no, you'll still be seeing duplicated text with different backgrounds in order to get a shadow effect on the text block itself. As at <http://home.earthlink.net/~davidp/dtest3.html> David Perrell
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