- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:19:11 -0700
- To: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Monday 2013-03-25 01:58 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Sun, 2013-03-24 at 12:14 -0700, L. David Baron wrote: > > 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?" If it were truly a new feature, sure. But it's not. It's an easier shortcut for doing something that's already possible using more general mechanisms. Authors can already do this in a number of ways: using border-image (preferably), or using images (the way authors used to simulate rounded corners before border-radius). My argument is that if there were enough demand to make this feature worth adding to implementations, we'd be seeing significant numbers of such pages in the wild. Otherwise, authors should use existing, more general, features that we've added that can address these use cases along with many others (border-image, probably using SVG images). -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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