- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:58:56 -0400
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Sun, 2013-03-24 at 12:14 -0700, L. David Baron wrote: > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css4-background/#border-corner-shape appears > to me to be an example of a feature that's addressing a problem that > we don't have -- or at least that we don't have enough to be worth > adding such a feature. I think it should be removed. If the shapes are what I think (pictures are sorely needed) these sorts of borders are very common in print, especially in display advertising. They are commonly used with a double-line border in which one line is thick and the other thin. I can give you some print examples if you want, although pretty much any newspaper or magazine is likely to have some. Of course, print and advertising borders often have a design at top centre too, and also half-way up the sides (or optically centered) which CSS borders don't do. I'd actually rather see ways to extend/grow SVG borders without scaling (e.g. using animation or interpolation). > So before agreeing to accept > this new feature, I'd like to see examples of Web sites that are > doing what these values would do. I don't buy this argument - "before building a bridge I want to see people who jump or swim across the river". Adding complexity is to be avoided, but the question isn't, "is this new feature something people already do without the new feature?" but, "what can people do with this new feature?" Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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