On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Mark Kenny wrote:
> I sent this from my other email, so apologies since it will come through twice.
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> I think a better native solution would be to specify the shape of the shadow, for example:
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> box-shadow-transform: height% width%;
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> Where height% and width% were percentages of the box dimensions. Obviously other values could be used: absolute lengths, expressions such as original - x pixels etc.
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That might be useful at times, but I don't see how it is a better solution for Shi's situation. If the shadow was just shorter, then it would still have rounded corners from the blur. Whereas cropping the shadow or sending it to a lower layer than the element would give the sharp edge division that this layout needs.