- From: Brian Sexton <discussion-w3c@ididnotoptin.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:31:52 -0800
- To: "Andrew Fedoniouk" <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Cc: "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>
Andrew,
> You don't need multiple images for that (multiply images - multiply
> overhead).
>
> . . .
>
> Probably (if we don't want to introduce new attributes) full definition
> might look like:
>
> #table-image td
> {
> background-image:url(backgrounds/cellback.png);
> background-position:8px 8px 8px 8px; /*left top right bottom offsets*/
> background-repeat:expand; /* or -h-smile-expand, whatever you like */
> padding:8px;
> border: none;
> }
That is an interesting idea for a way to go about things, but "expand" does
not seem to be a valid value for the background-repeat property even in the
most recent version of the backgrounds module working draft. Even if it
were, though, I do not think expanding a single raster image is a viable
option for fluid elements or multiple fixed elements of different sizes.
As for multiplying overhead, I think it might be a better option than
requiring Web developers to resort to image clipping trickery.
Kind regards,
Brian Sexton
Received on Monday, 15 November 2004 07:31:47 UTC