- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:19:01 +0100
- To: W3C style mailing list mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mar 7, 2012, at 22:04, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org> wrote: >> On Tuesday 28 February 2012 02:22:12 Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>> With an explicit hook, other sources of <image> could potentially >>> hook into this as well, though I'm not currently aware of anything >>> else that would want to. >> >> You mean like linear-gradient() and radial-gradient()? Why wouldn't they >> make sense inside image()? > > Because they can't "fail" like a url or element() can. As long as you > don't make a syntax error, a gradient will *always* produce an image. But a solid color cannot fail either, and yet it is allowed inside image(). Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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