Re: [css3-text] graphical effects and text-decoration

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:41 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
> wrote:
>> For CSS3, I'm attempting to define this. Considering the painting model
>> (which
>> puts decorations immediately over/under the text), I think it makes the
>> most
>> sense for 'visibility' to affect a piece of text and its text-decorations
>> together, even though the color and position are taken from the decorating
>> ancestor.
>
>
> That sounds reasonable, especially because Gecko behaves that way :-).
>
>> Related questions come up though: what about 'text-shadow'?
>>
>> What about other graphical effects, like filters? 'opacity'?
>>
>> A future property for filling text
>> with a pattern? Should these all have the same answer?
>
>
> For consistency, yes.
>
> I can't think of any reason authors would want to have filters or opacity
> not apply to text decorations. Possibly authors might want to apply
> text-shadow or fill-with-pattern differently to the decorations, but we
> could mint new properties (similar to 'text-decoration-color') if that was
> desirable. Note that SVG defines 'fill' to apply equally to both text and
> its decorations.

Agree with all of this.

~TJ

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