- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:31:55 -0600
- To: John Oyler <johnoyler.css@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
I don't think they imply that necessarily. For example, border-radius can't be used in the border shorthand. dave On Dec 19, 2007, at 12:18 PM, John Oyler wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2007, at 1:12 PM, David Hyatt wrote: > >> Text-shadow is shadowing some actual drawing. Box-shadow, though, >> is just a decorative effect around the edges of a box. I don't >> think they are that similar (other than syntactically). >> >> Possible new properties that would shadow actual drawing and that >> would behave more like text-shadow include: >> shadow - Shadow all drawing done by the object and its descendants. >> border-shadow - Shadow actual border drawing (would get messy at >> border corners just as RGBA overlap does) >> background-shadow - Shadow actual background drawing (this would >> do more what you want with a partially transparent background for >> example, since the shadow would show through the transparency) >> > > Of these, "shadow" seems to be the least problematic property name. > The other two imply that you could include the shadow's values in a > plain "background" or "border" and expect it to work. I'm not sure > that's possible, wouldn't the parser hiccup when seeing another > color value, or a pair of unit values? Is there some way to delimit > it that I'm not aware of, that could make it non-ambiguous? Or would > you just not have them as part of plain border/background? > >> > > John Oyler > john@discrevolt.com > > >
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