Fwd: [css3-borders] Should border-radius clip backgrounds in the presence of border-image? from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2009-07-15 (www-style@w3.org from July 2009)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:47:29 -0500
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Zack Weinberg<zweinberg@mozilla.com> wrote:
> When the "border styles" are suppressed due to the presence of a border
> image, should browsers continue to clip the background to the specified
> border-radius?  Empirically, both Firefox (3.5 and trunk) and Webkit
> (1.1.10) do so, but I doubt anyone really thought about it.  I could
> argue both ways on whether it's desirable -- the attached example looks
> bad, but I could come up with a border image for which it would look
> good.

Brad Kemper had an test page covering this:
http://www.bradclicks.com/cssplay/BorderImageAndRadius.html

It seems that allowing border-radius to continue to work (at least for
clipping backgrounds) in the presence of border-image can be useful.

~TJ

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