- From: Max Romantschuk <max@provico.fi>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 08:58:09 +0300
- To: www-style@w3.org
> Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: >> Illustration: >> >> Source image: >> http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/images/tileex.png >> will be rendered as >> http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/images/tileexsample.jpg >> using "extended" CSS: >> background-image-margin-top: 16px; >> background-image-margin-bottom: 13px; >> background-image-margin-left: 16px; >> background-image-margin-right: 13px; >> >> More complex example (little bit ugly but nevertheless...): >> http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmengine/screenshots/tablebackgrounds.png I wonder if the benefits of these rules really make up for the added complexity in rendering. Effects like this can be achieved with existing CSS, without compromizing the document semantics to a great deal. Please refer to http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customcorners/ for an example of this technique. I do think the idea is rather "cool", but I feel CSS3 needs to adress more rudimentary issues relating to design, like the current impossibility of vertically centering a block level element of unknown height inside another block level element of unknown height. But that's another issue. Ultimately I guess my point is that all sorts of stuff could be added to CSS, but there would always be people wanting more. The fact that this effect can be achieved as it is now suggests it being less than a burning need to implement it at the moment. -- Max Romantschuk http://max.nma.fi/
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