- From: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:31:25 -0500
- To: Web style list <www-style@w3.org>
Chris Lilley wrote about the proposal to add to CSS3 a 'box-shadow' property: > I suggest that the existing 'filter' property from the SVG 1.0 > Recommendation can already do the box shadow, the blurred drop shadow, > the multiple colored blured drop shadow, the text shadow, and so forth > plus many, many other things without coming up with a keyword or > property for each canned effect. > > It is significantly more configurable than the methods proposed here, > and also is very well documented in terms of precise, interoperable > rendering and already implemented several times. The existing implementations nullify what would have been my primary objection. However, certain issues remain. Will we seek a method to include filter definitions in CSS (as by an '@filter' at-rule)? How easily written are the filters necessary to produce the equivalent of the proposed 'box-shadow' property? What will become of 'text-shadow'? How does 'text-shadow' interact with 'filter'? If CSS3 will include the 'filter' property, it should drop the developing 'font-effect' property. The values 'engrave' and 'emboss' are obsoleted by 'filter'. The value 'outline' can be obsoleted by SVG's stroke properties. -- Etan Wexler
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