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

[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. 

Received on Monday, 23 January 2012 22:04:09 UTC