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

On Oct 29, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
>> He suggests not doing any heuristics, but follow a predefined default behavior. 'fill', 'stroke', 'mask', 'clip-path' always assume that fragments (which are no media fragments) are treated as resources. For all other properties, they are treated as images.
> 
> This approach seems at least acceptable. I'm not sure that it's optimal. It does need to be fleshed out a little bit.
> 
>> For CSS Masking that would mean:
>> 
>>         mask: url(image.svg#id) is assumed to be a mask resource. At least if it is the only reference. If it has more than one list item, it is treated as image again.
>> 
>>         mask-image: url(image.svg#id) is assumed to be an image, since the property, by default, takes CSS Images.
> 
> This is a problem. I don't think we can, according to the architecture of CSS, make the interpretation of a CSS property value depend on whether it came from a shorthand or not. I also think it would be awfully confusing for authors. And consider the CSSOM implications if you set 'mask' and then read the computed value of 'mask-image'.
You are right, WebKit would have the same problem.

> 
> My best idea there would be to make 'mask-image' default to a paint-server. So the proposal would be:
> Given a url() value in the context of a property P:
> a) if the URI has no fragment identifier, treat it as an image load.
> b) if the URI has a fragment identifier, treat it as an external resource reference if P is 'mask-image', 'fill', 'stroke', 'clip-path', 'filter' (... extensible list of SVG CSS properties here), otherwise treat it as an image load.
> 
> This means that background-image etc can only refer to a paint server using the element() syntax, not the url() syntax; CSS image-value syntax is not fully unified across properties. This proposal may be more confusing to authors than my property-independent proposal, I'm not sure. This proposal is more compatible with SVG stacks. Overall, I'd be happy with either proposal. Someone please make a decision! :-)
Sounds like a good compromise. For all non-SVG-properties, we have element() to reference a paint server.

Greetings,
Dirk

> 
> Rob
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