Re: Idea: background-image-frame attribute

On Thursday 2005-12-29 14:22 -0800, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
>     background-image: url(nextpage.png);
>     background-image-frame: 0px 0px 10px 10px;

This has already been proposed for replaced elements:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-content-20030514/#the-crop
and a more general solution that solves both problems at once (like the
one proposed in [1]) would be vastly preferable to adding a new property
for each property that accepts image values.  For example:

  background-image: image-rect(nextpage.png, 0px, 0px, 10px, 10px);

This value could then be used everywhere images can be used: 'content',
'list-style-image', etc.

Putting multiple images into a single raster image file is a common
technique in user-interface design and would improve the page loading
performance.

-David

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113577#c3

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L. David Baron                                <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
           Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation