- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:15:24 -0700
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Brendan Kenny <bckenny@gmail.com>, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "robert@ocallahan.org" <robert@ocallahan.org>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Jun 23, 2010, at 11:20 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > On 06/23/2010 11:14 AM, Brendan Kenny wrote: >> >> Just to be clear, aren't the mockups for each option going to be the >> same thing? For instance, wouldn't Simon's example >> >> http://smfr.org/misc/shadow.html >> >> just be accompanied by the question >> >> "Would you describe this as 'blur: 8px' or 'blur: 16px'?" >> >> ? > > The examples should be diagrammed with dimensions, so there's > no guessing e.g. how big the opaque part is compared to the > original box. I think it's interesting to note that the blur > centers on the edge of the shadow: I suspect many people had > not realized that. (I didn't, until working on this aspect of > the spec.) Agreed. I was thinking to include a note about that, and then ask a question such as "which of the following renderings best describe a blur of 10px (and don't cheat to see what you browser does)", and include some variations that are all based on a black shadow (for widest range of perceptiple changes to transparent). The variations would include not only one version being twice the width of the other, but also the possibility of clipping to within some range that (1% - 99%?) that a human can discriminate as different from totally opaque and totally transparent (and filling the 10px with that), and also testing whether or not people consider a pixel of 100% and/or 0% to be part of the countable part or not.
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