- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:00:12 -0500
- To: Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giovanni@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Giovanni Campagna<scampa.giovanni@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/6/10 fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>: >> Giovanni Campagna wrote: >>> In addition, I propose to add support for one color images. This would >>> be especially useful in background, if you can stack multiple >>> partially transparent colours, with some covering only the content, >>> some the padding area and some the whole border box. Also, now that >>> border-images can be wider than the box, using colour images is useful >>> to avoid hacks with common borders and negative margins. >> >> I don't understand the use case. > > Basically, one may want to add different background colors to the > content box, to the padding box and to the border box. This can be > achieved using various background layers with corresponding background > clip/origin, but you need an image per box. If you want only pure > colors, using a color-image() syntax may be more performant. I'm also still not sure what the *use* of this is. What are you doing that requires applying different backgrounds to the content-box, padding-box, etc.? As usual, a description of what you want *added* isn't nearly as useful as a description of what you want to *do*, as the latter allows a discussion of existing and alternate methods to achieve your aim. >>> Lastly, I propose to specify gradients, that WebKit currently >>> supports, or as an alternative, to provide references to SVG paint >>> servers. >> >> The WG has not discussed or agreed to add gradients yet, so it's >> not in the draft. It would fit in this module, however. > > I hope that the WG will discuss it, either now or when discussing CSS > Image Values Level 4. Since WebKit already has decent experimental gradient support, and many of us authors *do* want this sort of thing, I expect it'll show up in Image v4. Fwiw, I currently use a PHP script to generate gradient images for me, as I use them all over the place. Having the support directly in CSS would be significantly easier, as my script is somewhat limited in functionality. I can extend it, but it still requires an author to have the script and an appropriate version of PHP available, and a network round-trip for the image. However, just having the ability to programatically create gradients is a *huge* help when designing sites, as it doesn't require a trip to GIMP, setting the size right, saving it, naming it something descriptive, and then uploading it to the server. ~TJ
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