- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:22:06 -0700
- To: Alexis Deveria <adeveria@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Jun 4, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Alexis Deveria wrote: >> How about >> >> #header { >> content: url(header.png), contents; >> } >> >> <h1 id="header">My Pretty Header</h1> > > Ah, didn't realize was possible, cool! That does indeed solve the use > case in theory. However, without the positioning options the > background-image property offers, this solution does not allow for > sprites, which may be an issue for some authors. There may also be > other benefits of using background-image, so ideally it would still be > nice to be able to include them. You can still use a separate image for :hover, etc., if using sprites is not a requirement. It's also worth noting that with font embedding via @font-face, many of the needs to do CSS image replacement go away, especially when you can combine that with text-shadow, RGBA colors (for translucency), etc.
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