- From: Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:30:35 +0100
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Bert Bos" <bert@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:59:36 +0100, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: >> Bert Bos wrote: >> > But to answer the question about the comma: We wanted to preserve >> the >> > possibility of adding arguments to the url(), e.g., >> > url(http://example.com/,cookie=hfdh455f). >> That is (IMHO) a horribly ugly syntax; the delimiter >> needs to be tall if it is to be obvious, and a semi-colon >> would be far clearer to the reader than a comma (which >> actually looked like a period in the e-mail, and only >> became a clear comma when I replied using a monospaced >> font). > > A better future extension would be URL fallbacks, imo: > > background-image: url(image.svg, image.png, image.gif, image.jpg); That would indeed be tremendously useful (that applies to all CSS properties that can reference images, list-image comes to mind for example). Cheers /Erik -- Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed
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