Re: [css3-text] Should text-shadow have 'spread'?

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote:
> I don't think 'spread' should apply to text-shadow, yet CSS3 Text suggests that text-shadow follows box-shadow <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#text-shadow>.
>
> For rectangles and rounded-corner rectangles, 'spread' is easy to implement by insetting or outsetting the rectangle bounds. For arbitrary shapes, spread is vastly more difficult to implement, requiring either some complex path math, or pixel-based computations that are expensive to do at drawing time. There are also complexities related to whether spread makes sharp corners rounded etc.

WebKit already has text-stroke, which should be nearly the same thing
as a spread.

If we don't have spread, authors will continue to hack it into working
with 4 or 8 text-shadows, which has some visual glitches and isn't
great for performance.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 23 January 2012 19:44:15 UTC