- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:02:52 +0000
- To: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>
[Simon Fraser:] > > 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. > Current IE10 builds support it so we'd certainly like to propose that it does. It's author-friendly from a consistency standpoint in that it makes the shadow syntax consistent with box-shadow.
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