- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:46:06 -0700
- To: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
- Cc: Peter Beverloo <peter@lvp-media.com>, Felipe Nascimento de Moura <felipenmoura@gmail.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Aug 17, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Simon Fraser wrote: > Children cannot be less opaque than their parents because of the way that opacity is rendered. The element with opacity and all its descendants are rendered into a bitmap first, and that bitmap is then painted with the specified opacity value. This approach is necessary, because otherwise overlapping children would have a different appearance. This is also the reason why opacity < 1 creates stacking context. > Right, but couldn't there be a new property or new component value that would allow that child and of of its children to form a new separate stacking context and separate bitmap that was rendered above the parent, without the parent's opacity affecting it? Or does that cause horrible performance with "look ahead" problems?
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