RE: Parsing background shorthand

Internet Explorer 9 Beta and Platform Preview 7 have these implemented.
 http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/info/downloads/Default.html

 http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/info/ReleaseNotes/Default.html


Note that those builds do not respect the specification requirement that <bg-size> must be immediately preceded by <bg-position> in the shorthand.  It's something we would like to address in future builds.

I'm not aware of any other CSS3 background properties parsing issues with those builds.

- Brian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of L. David Baron
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:30 AM
> To: Rafal Chlodnicki
> Cc: www-style@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Parsing background shorthand
> 
> On Tuesday 2011-02-01 12:48 +0100, Rafal Chlodnicki wrote:
> > Spec ( http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-background ) gives
> > few examples for background shorthand that do not work in neither
> > Opera, Firefox or Chrome:
> >
> > 40% url("chess.png") / 10em gray round fixed border-box #CCC top left
> > url("metal.jpg") / 100% auto no-repeat
> >
> > Syntax of shorthand is defined as:
> >
> > <final-bg-layer> = <bg-image> || <bg-position> [ / <bg-size> ]? ||
> > <repeat-style> || <attachment> || <box>{1,2} || <'background-color'>
> >
> > Both of these examples have bg-position placed before bg-image and
> > then only after bg-image they specify "/ bg-size". That looks wrong to
> > me (and to tested browsers).
> >
> > If I move bg-position to be located before "/ bg-size" then it works
> > in Opera but still doesn't work in Chrome and Firefox.
> >
> > Are we dealing with bad examples + incomplete implementations or I'm
> > doing something wrong?
> 
> Firefox hasn't yet implemented the additions to the background shorthand in
> css3-background; the syntax currently in the editor's draft has not reached
> Candidate Recommendation (CR), declaring it ready for unprefixed
> implementation, though I expect it will reach CR relatively soon.
> 
> -David
> 
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>

Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2011 19:57:52 UTC