- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:27:52 -0800
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: Markus Ernst <derernst@gmx.ch>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "lee.kowalkowski@googlemail.com" <lee.kowalkowski@googlemail.com>
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 10, 2010, at 8:35 AM, "Markus Ernst" <derernst@gmx.ch> wrote: > >> Besides the discussion on image spriting being an appropriate use case or >> not, I think that Lee's actual request is actually not silly. I share his >> point that it would be consistent to have the possibility to set background >> position values separately, but I would consider background-position-top, >> -right, -bottom, and -left properties more appropriate than -x and -y >> properties, just as for element position, border and whatever. > > I don't know how that would work if there were 4 component lengths in a > single declaration. Seems a little more complicated. Presumably it would be similar to how top/right/bottom/left work right now - if both -left and -right are specified, the position is overspecified, and -right is ignored. ~TJ
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