Re: Concern about -webkit-mask

-webkit-mask-image is identical to SVG's definition of mask: convert RGB to
luminance and multiply with the alpha.
Looking at all the keywords to support this property [1], it seems that
more is needed to control the mask than just referring to a URI.

Rik

[1]:  http://www.webkit.org/blog/181/css-masks/

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> SVG 'mask' should 'just work' on HTML, the same way we've defined SVG
> 'filter' to 'just work' on HTML. SVG masks have the unfortunate properties
> that they require an external mask element and they use luminance instead
> of alpha to define the mask operation, so I think something like
> -webkit-mask is also useful. Someone should look at the ways people are
> using -webkit-mask, then ideally we can extend SVG 'mask' with enough of
> the -webkit-mask syntax to cover that usage (and for that syntax, mask
> using alpha instead of luminance); if not I guess we'll have to define a
> new property with the functionality of -webkit-mask.
>
> Rob
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