- From: Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:45:26 -0700
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
I came across a gorgeous use case today for both the bevel (in multiple places) and the scoop values: http://www.losttype.com/klinic/?s=eee Lea Verou W3C developer relations http://w3.org/people/all#lea ✿ http://lea.verou.me ✿ @leaverou On Mar 26, 2013, at 14:18, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > On 03/24/2013 03:50 PM, Lea Verou wrote: >> I’ll try to find some additional good examples. >> >> Elika, since you added the property, maybe you had some good existing use cases in mind? > > The major one for 'bevel' was to allow the shapes that are used in certain > kinds of breadcrumb trails and tabs: some styles uses slanted tabs rather > than curved-corner ones, and I've seen breadcrumb trails that look like > ____________________ > | \ \ \ > |______\_______\_______\ > > or > ____________________ > | ... \ ... \ ... \ > |_____/______/_______/ > > (Earlier designs of the Launchpad bug tracker did this, for example.) > > Another use case was to give shapes that would commonly allow the hit-testing > (and background-painting) area to more closely approximate fancy-cornered > border images. > > ~fantasai >
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