- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:18:02 +0100
- To: Coises <Randy@coises.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Coises wrote: > > Is there any way to create the effect of text "masking" a (tiled) image? > (Either negatively, as a "punch-through"; or positively, as a "stencil"?) CSS authors are always finding surprising ways of doing things previously thought to be impossible (polygons anyone?) but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that no, it's not current possible to achieve a punch-through effect using CSS. It's certainly not something that the spec explicitly allows for. I'm not sure how you could easily introduce it using the current painting model. How far should you punch through? What does it mean to punch through something that is punched through? etc. -- Ian Hickson ``The inability of a user agent to implement part of this specification due to the limitations of a particular device (e.g., non interactive user agents will probably not implement dynamic pseudo-classes because they make no sense without interactivity) does not imply non-conformance.'' -- Selectors, Sec13
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