RE: [css3-backgrounds] Should a non-zero border-radius create a new stacking context ?

I disagree that this adds complexity for authors; we can't argue that creating a stacking context for overflow != visible would have simplified things *and* that doing so in some cases makes them unacceptably harder. Especially when existing, heavily-used properties already do this.



If the side effects of creating a new stacking context is so likely to break pages then opacity and transforms are equally problematic for authors. If so I'd like to see evidence that working around this is a common issue for authors; I'm not claiming such evidence does not exist btw. Pointers definitely welcome.



In the absence of said evidence, a cogent argument as to why taking this kind of risk is acceptable in some cases but not others - opacity is very heavily used, at least as much as border-radius if not more so - would be most helpful.



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From: rocallahan@gmail.com [rocallahan@gmail.com] on behalf of Robert O'Callahan [robert@ocallahan.org]
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 12:00 AM
To: Sylvain Galineau
Cc: Brad Kemper; www-style@w3.org
Subject: Re: [css3-backgrounds] Should a non-zero border-radius create a new stacking context ?

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com<mailto:sylvaing@microsoft.com>> wrote:
The argument is *not* that it should be done because it was done for opacity < 1 or transform != none. The argument is that the extra complexity is very likely unnecessary in practice because if such scenarios were common then opacity < 1 would break a lot of pages and/or require workarounds.

Even if the scenarios aren't common, making them behave unexpectedly still has the downside of adding complexity for authors.

  The penalty is not high. But it's real and I don't like making things harder than they need to be simply because 'that's the way it is'. Especially when several implementors agree that non-visible overflow is more complex than it needs to be.

Sure, but you're proposing adding more complexity on top of that, from an author's point of view.

Rob
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