Re: Ambiguities in fill:url() / stroke:url() syntax

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> Now to CSS Images on 'fill' and 'stroke'. If you really want to reference
> an image, or interpret an SVG as image (and not as resource). And if you
> want this image as paint server (we don't allow it currently; would be
> new), then you need the image() function.
>
>         fill: image(url(image.svg#id))
>

Actually I think you could just use image(image.svg#id)?


> For masking, I opened a different thread "[css-masking] 'mask' with
> resource and image references". I think we have two possibilities (that are
> not hacky):
> 1) 'mask-image' does not get a short hand
> 2) The short hand for 'mask-image' gets renamed and  splitter from 'mask'.
> 'mask' will continue to just use <mask> references.
>

I don't see that thread yet. One problem with those ideas (and any similar
ideas) is that it means you can't just unprefix -webkit-mask by taking off
the prefix, you have to change the property name too. That might be hard
for authors to deal with. But it might be OK. I'd like to hear a specific
proposal for mask though.

Anyway, if I understand correctly, your proposal is to not allow url() from
CSS Image Values to be used for properties that already take an external
resource reference, i.e. don't fully unify CSS Image Values with SVG paint
servers. That's definitely a reasonable option. Tab would be disappointed
though :-).

PS: After discussing all these issues, does it mean that we can't extend
> element() to reference external documents?
>

I think that's unaffected. element() references would never load as images.

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