- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:40:28 -0800
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > Fwiw, I support changing the name of box-shadow to border-shadow, if > it helps the conceptual unification. After all, since it responds to > border-radius, it is *not* actually a box shadow (as border-radius > doesn't alter the box - the cut out bits of the corners are still > opaque to events). If we ever *do* support more complex shadow edges, > or more complex border edges in general, it will become even more > inaccurate. There's some cognitive dissonance with calling it a > border property too, but I personally don't think it's as bad (and can > reconcile it with the fact that it's a 'shadow'). The problem with changing names of properties at this late stage is that people are already using the existing names in their style sheets. This module is so well advanced implementation-wise that you see things like -webkit-border-radius -moz-border-radius border-radius in tutorials etc. I agree 'corner-radius' would have been a better name. And there are good arguments for 'border-shadow' instead of 'box-shadow'. But I'm not convinced that these are strong enough reasons to change the name at this point. ~fantasai
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