RE: [css3-background] border-radius and outlines

> From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net]
 
> The shape of outlines is not defined, and they are explicitly
> allowed to be nonrectangular. The intention is to allow the
> UA to match platform conventions insofar as it can, as outlines
> are primarily intended as a UI element. Given that, I don't see
> what remains to be defined. Is there some particular text you
> would like added to the spec?

Right. The more I think about it, the less obvious this is spec-wise.
But given the bug linked by Simon [1] and, I think, reasonable author
expectations, I suspect outlines should follow the outer border edge
shape defined by border-radius. Are there use-cases where you'd want
to keep your outline square even if the box were nearly circular or 
elliptic ?

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25293

Received on Wednesday, 7 April 2010 02:20:12 UTC