- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:20:57 -0800
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>, W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> <ul dir=rtl>
>> <li>ONE</li>
>> </ul>
>> <style>
>> ul {
>> list-style-image: image( url("right-facing-arrow.jpg"), ltr );
>> transition: list-style-image .2s;
>> }
>> ul:hover {
>> list-style-image: image( url("highlight-right-arrow.jpg"), ltr );
>> }
>> </style>
>
> The parentheses embedded in parentheses are kind of hard to read. This seems like a place where we should have a direction pseudo-class, and then just use a different image (or have image transformation properties for list-style-images, border-images, etc.).
>
[snip]
> ul:rtl {
> list-style-image-transform: reflect(0deg);
> } /* or, transformation is automatic for directions not specified by author */
This last one works for me too. There are only four image properties
in CSS, so having a separate transform property for them wouldn't be
onerous, I would think. We've talked about the usefulness of
transforming images before, too (rotation/scaling/skewing of
background images, particularly tiled ones, for example).
(While I'm usually in favor of image manipulation happening at the
<image> level rather than the property level, in this case it would
require repeating an image, which is fragile. Better for the author
to have transforms directly.)
~TJ
Received on Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:24:16 UTC