- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:02:00 -0500
- To: David Perrell <davidp@hpaa.com>
- Cc: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:53 PM, David Perrell<davidp@hpaa.com> wrote: > Brad Kemper wrote: > | How about something called "text-background" that has all all the > | background-* properties preceded by "text-"? > > Text is foreground, normally colored with property foreground-color. > Text-background makes no sense. A subset of background properties should > suffice. I wouldn't say it makes *no* sense, but I'd prefer to cleave close to the SVG property names and use text-fill and text-stroke as the basic shortcut properties. > The effect would always clip to the text, so -clip can be dumped. No reason to cut out that possibility so fast. It may be useful to fill per-line or per-glyph. Of course, it might not. > The > question is, what is the default size of the 'image' that's being clipped? > I'd expect that for text-fill-clip it would be the content area. But there > would be times when a fill might need to be aligned with a background, and > you'd want it to occupy the same area. Yeah, you'd want it to accept at least the same -origin and -clip values as backgrounds, and have them refer to the same thing. ~TJ
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