Re: Idea : replacement for border-radius, a more complete corner styling property.

I think something like this is also significantly less necessary once  
you have border-radius and background-clip (border-radius to create  
the corner shapes and flat sides, and background-clip to keep the  
background confined to the padding box).[1]

On Aug 5, 2009, at 7:32 AM, François REMY wrote:

> Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> It would be a nice to have, but I don't think any implementor would  
> like
> to have this included in the spec. We currently have a nearly  
> compatible
> solution about border-radius, nobody shall delete it from the spec in
> favor of an hypotetical replacement.
>
> Maybe such features may be implemented in a later version of CSS by
> introducting the use of a keyword in the border-radius property.
>
>     selector {
>         border-radius: 10px beleved;
>     }
>
> Please note that I'm not a browser implemetor, and anything I could  
> say
> here is only speculative and only reflects my own thoughts.
>
> Regards,
> F. Remy
>
> From: Nicosmos
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:32 PM
> To: www-style@w3.org
> Subject: Idea : replacement for border-radius, a more complete  
> corner styling property.
>
> Hello,
>
> Here is a small idea for CSS. I doesn't affect something important  
> like selectors or positioning, it's only about decorating : it  
> concerns border-radius. The problem with rounded corners, is that if  
> it's currently a lot of used on the Web, and in print too, this is  
> because it's trendy. For some years only. However, a trend is always  
> temporary.
>
> A language should, I think, transcend trends. I don't mean delete  
> border-radius, no ! I use it a lot like many people. But I mean  
> include it in a more global property related to border corner  
> styling. Not only rounded. Something like "corner-style".
>
> There could be two sub-property. The first in order to define the  
> style applied to corner, like "corner-style-type". Quickly, I can  
> see three different style for it : rounder corner (effect of the  
> current border-radius), beleved corner, and corner "scoop out in  
> square". A image is a better explanation :
>
> <mime-attachment.png>
>
> The second sub-property will allow to choose the size of these  
> styles, with a "corner-style-size". Obviously, the same box could  
> have different styles and sizes for each corner.
>
> div#various-corner {
>  corner-style-type: rounded beveled square-cutted none;
>  corner-style-size: 30px 20px 25px 0;
>  }
>
> should show something like this :
>
> <mime-attachment.png>
>
> The idea is to don't grant border-radius a complete property, but  
> make of it only a possibility of an more overall property, in the  
> same way that "double" is only a value of "border-style", or  
> "square" is only an option of "list-style-type". Obviously, this  
> property will be to improve : adding more corner style types and  
> allow to write two values, x and y, for the same corner style, to do  
> something like this for instance :
>
> <mime-attachment.png>
>
> (previous and next)
>
> I know that it's only a detail not really important compared to all  
> the other work in making CSS3, but I try ... Could you plan a  
> property like this ?
>
> Thanks for your potential answer,
> Nicolas.
>
> PS : As you have probably noticed, my English isn't awesome at all.  
> Sorry ;)
>
[1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-background/