RE: [css3-background] Default shadow color

Perhaps I was confused by the title of the mail but...

> >> 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.
> >>
> >> ~fantasai
> >
> > You've said this twice now, but I'm curious to here why or at least in what
> way it's "wrong".
> 
> It's hard to imagine many wanting their text-shadow to be the color of their
> text, as that would usually make the text unreadable. If text-shadow had
> spread it might be useful for creating a pseudo-bold, I suppose, but that
> would be too hacky for us to encourage in the absence of existing usage.

I thought we were -- at least initially -- talking about box-shadow.

If the only reason to consider currentColor as "wrong" is because "text-shadow might look bad", then it should really be a text-shadow tweak (like the no-inset thing) rather than a box-shadow UA-defined shenanigan.

Or am I missing something?

- Brian

Received on Friday, 4 March 2011 02:17:46 UTC