- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:37:13 +0100
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Brad Kemper:
> > But the end result is an image with a frozen pixmap shadow at a fixed
> > resolution and color, forever tied to the border image. I don't want
> > that. I want box shadows as vectors that are suitable for printing
>
> So now the argument is that it is not OK for the shadow to be a pixelated
> raster in situations where the image-based border is a pixelated raster?
We should avoid images wherever possible.
> > and
> > DOM manipulations, that compress well. They should be setable
> > independently of the border image. E.g., it should be easy to change the
> > box shadow color when when hovering over the element.
>
> It is. Use a different image for hover. People do it all the time already
> (with background images).
We're trying to move away from having to generate lots of images :)
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:38:06 UTC