Re: [css3-values] <image> type

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 21:59, fantasai wrote:
> I'd like to propose defining an <image> type (similar to <color>) in
> the CSS3 Values and Units spec. We define and use this in CSS3
> Backgrounds and Borders.* Currently it just means the same as <url>,
> but this gives us an easy way to expand the appropriate <url>s to
> take, e.g. gradient or image sprite notation in the future.
>
> * http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-background/#values

Good idea (even though I don't think we should add gradients and 
sprites...).

We could use the type for 'list-style-image'[1] and 'icon'[2].

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-lists-20021107/#list-style-image
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/#icon



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