Re: [css3-background] should specify color space for box-shadow blurring

On 09/30/2011 06:31 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
> On Saturday 2011-10-01 00:51 +0000, Brian Manthos wrote:
>> My understanding is that the blurring is all about varying the
>> *opacity* of the shadow -- nothing about changing the color of the
>> shadow.
>>
>> If color space is involved in varying opacity, then the opacity
>> property would have the same concern.
>
> Yeah, you're right; given that it's an opacity blur there's no
> sensible way to put it in another color space without changing the
> color space used for compositing.  Doing compositing in linearRGB
> might be a sensible option to offer (SVG offers it), but it's not
> connected to the blurring in box-shadow.

Ok, I'm closing this ISSUE-188 as needing no changes. Please let me
know if that's incorrect.
   https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/188

~fantasai

Received on Monday, 19 December 2011 18:07:29 UTC