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

On Apr 6, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote:

> On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Sylvain Galineau wrote:
>
>> The spec [1][2] does not mention anything about the effect of  
>> border-radius on outlines.
>> Using recent release versions of major browsers shows a square  
>> outline corner regardless of
>> the specified shape of the border corner.
>>
>> Authors likely expect the outline to follow the border edge. The  
>> specification should
>> address this requirement.
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/
>> [2] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-background/
>
> We have a bug report for WebKit requesting an outline-radius property:
> <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25293>

That does seem like a bug. When would someone ever not want the  
outline to follow the shape of the border-radius (assuming the outline  
is outside the border)?