Re: Implementation of Inset Box Shadow on image elements

On Aug 3, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote:
>> So one thing I don't understand about this proposed use of
>> inset shadow, illustrated at
>> <http://dl.dropbox.com/u/952/pola/index.html>, is why the
>> background-image is dimmed out at all.
>> 
>> The inset shadow goes from fully opaque at the edges of the
>> "hole", to fully transparent over most of the hole (by some
>> distance related to the blur radius from the edge). So,
>> outside the influence of the shadow, the background-image
>> should be fully revealed. Why is it dimmed out?
> 
> Because it's a different image.  The one on the left is pola.jpg, the
> one on the right is pola-trans.jpg.

I'm asking about the desired effect, not specifically how it's illustrated
by <http://dl.dropbox.com/u/952/pola/index.html>.

Simon

Received on Tuesday, 3 August 2010 18:31:11 UTC