Re: [css-masking] 'mask: none' clear all masking operations

On Jul 16, 2013 12:57 AM, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote:
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>> Does it mean that I would end up with something like:
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>> mask: layer url(mask1.png) url(mask2.png) box url(border-mask.png);
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>> That sprinkling of keywords inside a value seems very unusual and
confusing. I didn't like it for gradient functions, and it seems even odder
here. And I'm not sure how people would interpret "layer" in this context.
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>> Can't we solve the element vs. layer issue by inventing a new url
function, like ref()? In SVG we could say that url() behaves like ref(),
but for HTML assume that a url() in the mask shorthand refers to a
mask-layer image?
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> What do you mean by "in SVG" and "for HTML"?
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> Currently "mask:url(foo)" is defined by SVG to be a resource reference,
not an image reference. We can't really change that or make it behave
differently "in HTML".
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> Per the CSS3 Image Values spec, authors could write"mask:
image(url(mask1.png)) url(mask2.png)". Then we'd be asking authors to
unprefix "-webkit-mask: url(foo)" to "mask:image(url(foo))".

Well, to "image('foo')", but yeah.

~TJ