- From: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 06:25:23 -0700
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
- CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:13 AM, "Simon Sapin" <simon.sapin@exyr.org> wrote: > Hi, > > From the "CSS⇋Object Negotiation" section: >> 4. Unless otherwise specified by CSS, the object is then clipped to >> the concrete object size. > > It might be worth noting that nothing in CSS 2.1, css-images-3 or > css-backgrounds-3 specifies such a thing. In other words, unless a > feature is added to CSS in the future to do something else, objects are > always clipped to their concrete object size. > > For some reason I had the idea that this was not the case for gradients > (which are infinite, after all.) I had to check in existing > implementations that a gradient background with no-repeat and a definite > background size is indeed clipped. Yes, that is true. In SVG we want to support CSS gradients as well and this would be a problem. We discussed special casing gradients to not clip in SVG. Dirk > > -- > Simon Sapin >
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