- From: Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:05:12 +1000
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 23/07/2013, at 9:57 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote: >> It would be very nice if the background-image property provided the same functionality as border-image with slicing and stretching 9-part images. Of course there would be some syntactic issues, but 9-part designs are very popular and powerful, especially with responsive designs. It is a shame they are only supported by borders. >> >> Is there interest in such an enhancement? > > If so, I feel strongly that it should be a generic image manipulator, > rather than a specialization for 'background'. Being able to 9-slice > an image and specify stretching behavior sounds possibly useful! I (we) didn't want to get to specifics before seeing if there was interest, but yes, I think we agree. SimonF spitballed something like nine-part(url(image) 10 10 5 5) Dean
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