Re: [css3-background] Default shadow color

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote:
> [fantasai:]
>> Ok, if we have interop on currentColor, we can update the spec that way.
>> I'm kindof surprised, because if you do that for text-shadows, it's really
>> almost never the right color.
>
> For text-shadow, I can understand how it's a weird default but that is also
> the interop behavior today. There might be a better default - would something
> half way between foreground and background colors work better ? - but the
> interop and <shadow> consistency are already there. I also expect authors to
> want to pick their shadow colors carefully so I don't think it will be a burden
> in practice. It really is a testability/interop nitpick more than anything else.

I know that I've never written a text-shadow without an explicit
color, and have never seen one in the wild without a color either.
They may exist, but I believe they're very minority.  We don't really
have to worry about it.

~TJ

Received on Friday, 4 March 2011 00:32:07 UTC