Re: [css-images][css-backgrounds] Clipping at the concrete object size.

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org> wrote:
> 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.

Dirk brings up that SVG will be specifying such a thing, and fantasai
and I intend to add a value to background-repeat that doesn't do
clipping.  (Last time it came up, the planned name was 'extend'.)

~TJ