- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:53:58 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 2/22/12 12:43 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > Presumably it should be identically usable in the other<image>-using > properties besides 'content', right? There is no such thing. All properties that do uri stuff do pretty different things, so they're handled on a case-by-case basis. > What makes it hard to use in 'content'? url() in content is implemented in Gecko by creating an actual image element with src set to that url, basically. Which means that supporting MF syntax means either adding support to it for <img> or changing the implementation of 'content' significantly. background-image, on the other hand, just stores a pointer to image data, and when -moz-image-region is used a clip rect, and paints the image data, possibly clipped. I think your basic assumption that your mental model of image() values matches how implementations actually work, especially implementations that predate the existence of the concept of image() values is fundamentally false, fwiw. Which is why it's generally a bad idea to make statements about ease of implementation about a codebase that you're not familiar with: the correctness of such statements is strongly correlated with how well your mental model matches the actual implementation. If it doesn't match well, it's easy to overestimate or underestimate ease of implementation by several orders of magnitude... > It's reasonable that a *good* implementation would take more time. We > have a similar difficulty. I'm curious what the use-case for > -moz-image-rect() was in the first place, if not precisely what you > describe (lots of references to the same image with different rects). That was precisely the use case, yes. But since the clip rect is not stored in the URI itself, the URI can just be passed to the image library and then the clip rect applied if needed; the image library only sees one URI. > But you already have implemented the *exact* user-facing behavior that > the #xywh=... fragment has In some contexts. I do think that implementing this in Gecko for the specific case of background-image would not be too bad, fwiw. -Boris
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