- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:33:41 -0800
- To: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com> wrote: > On 19/01/2011 8:37 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> The CSS3 Images spec >> <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/#image-notation> defines the >> image() function, which allows authors to specify multiple images, >> representing the first one that doesn't give an error (that is, if the >> first one 404s or similar, the browser will instead fetch the second >> one in the list, etc.). >> >> Right now, the image() function has a form of light type-sniffing via >> the file extension, such that if the UA sees an image with an >> extension corresponding to a type of image the UA *knows* it doesn't >> support, it can skip trying to load the image altogether and just jump >> to the next image in the list. > > > Does this not work. > > background: url(example.svg), url(example.png); No, that's specifying multiple background images, which is a completely different feature. It means that you want to download and display both of them, with the example.svg on top. ~TJ
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