- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:22:23 -0700
- To: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, Nicholas Morgan <nimorgan@gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com> wrote: > On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:57:56 +0200, Nicholas Morgan <nimorgan@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> When I saw "background-origin" >> (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-background-origin) I got really >> excited; however, the more I read the more I was disappointed. I'm excited >> that I can pass it key words and translate the origin to specific areas >> inside the element. But for me it was the same as having >> "background-position" but only allowing me to have top, right, bottom & >> left. > > Sounds like you are being misled by the term "origin" (its usage for this > property seems a bit weird, and doesn't really have anything to do with the > origin of a coordinate system). Note the values allowed, they don't involve > top/right/etc (or percentages) at all. Well, it is about the origin of the coordinate system (and the overall size of the system too); it's just not the more standard meaning of "take this point in the current coordinate system and make it the new zero point". Especially with the expanded background-position syntax in CSS3, background-origin is pretty useful, since it also redefines where the right and bottom edges are. But yeah, sounds like Nicholas is just somewhat confused about the purpose of background-origin. ~TJ
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