- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 22:31:37 -0800
- To: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, Jordan OSETE <jordan.osete@gmail.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Brian Manthos wrote: >> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On >> Behalf Of Simon Fraser >> The problem with spread radius, which we already discussed in the context >> of box-shadow, is whether it makes sharp corners rounded. This is especially >> problematic with border-radius, because you have a potential discontinuity >> between zero border radius causing spread to retain sharp corners, and a any >> small, but non-zero radius resulting in in a shadow with obviously rounded >> corners. >> >> I think people will be more sensitive to this in the context of text, and that >> text stroke gives a more predictable visual result. > > > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/ > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#text-shadow > > These two drafts agree: "<shadow> is the same as defined for the ‘box-shadow’ property except that the ‘inset’ keyword is not allowed." I don't see any good reason to disallow inset shadows. I think you can create some nice effects with those: http://www.bradclicks.com/cssplay/hello.png The bottom example has 3 inset shadows and one outer. The top one has one inset and one outer.
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