On Mar 28, 2009, at 7:54 AM, David Hyatt wrote: > On Mar 28, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:58:52 +0100, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> >> wrote: >>> Yeah, I guess I'm saying "let's just drop the ability to set >>> border widths from border-image." >> >> Then you always have to set two properties. Is it worth considering >> making border-image a special form of border-style? That does not >> work for the border-*-style properties, but the same applies to >> resetting border-image by setting border. As a bonus it would make >> it easier to allow specifying some kind of fallback in case the >> image fails to load, cannot be decoded, is not supported, etc. >> > > I don't really care how this is solved. I just don't like what's in > the spec now, since snapping to different border widths just because > an image failed to load does not seem like what any author or user > would want. > > dave I written up a proposal that I think solves this problem, plus a couple others that I think are even bigger for authors. I'd appreciate it if everyone could take a look and let me know what you think. In the following link, I describe three problems (including this one), and a nice solution that I would love to see implemented: http://www.bradclicks.com/cssplay/border-image/Thinking_Outside_The_Box.html Sincerely, Brad Kemper home e-mail: mailto:brad.kemper@gmail.com
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