On May 12, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Brad Kemper wrote: > Here is my mockup: > > http://bradclicks.com/cssplay/Shadows.html > > > One thing that bugs me about this rendering of spread is the implicit use of round joins on the stroke instead of miter joins when cast is set to outside. My understanding of spread is that basically you take a shape (e.g., a glyph for text-shadow, a box for box-shadow) and you combine the filled glyph shape with a stroke of the shape that extends outside the fill by an amount equal to the spread. The composed shape (fill +stroke) can then have its shadow rendered offset by the spread to achieve the renderings you are showing. However when cast is outside you seem to be making assumptions about the line joins used by the stroke. In particular instead of a miter join, you are using round joins. My question is, is this intentional? It seems especially odd to use round joins for box- shadow to me, when the box itself could actually have specified a "rounding join" of its own via a border-radius (at which point I would expect the spread to simply follow the curve of the border-radius). dave (hyatt@apple.com)
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