Re: [css-masking] new value for 'mask-clip'

On Oct 26, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:

>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
>> The ellipse defined by this image would clip on the border box of the container. In absolute coordinates: cx=100, cy=100, rx=100, ry=100. Even with a value 'mask-clip: none', the ellipse would be the size of the container and clip to the border box of the container. But in the case above, you may want the ellipse mask the the whole group and not just the container.
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> In CSS you can't do anything with that "whole group box". It doesn't really exist as a concept. (Except, arguably, influencing what you can scroll to in a scrollable container.) I'm not sure we want to introduce it just for the sake of masking here.

That is not correct, we do it for Filter Effects already. And even Firefox does it for mask, clip-path, filter. It is the union of all border boxes of all descendants and the element itself, like the rect for getComputedBoundingRect.

Greetings,
Dirk

PS: The behavior of Firefox is described in an old specification draft. You may know this guy who wrote it :) http://people.mozilla.com/~roc/SVG-CSS-Effects-Draft.html

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> It would be more convincing if you could come up with an actual use-case.
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> Rob
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