On Mar 29, 2009, at 2:40 AM, Brad Kemper wrote: > 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 > > I think this proposal is fantastic. I would love to see it incorporated into the spec. dave (hyatt@apple.com)
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