Re: [css-compositing] should background-blend-mode have different list repetition rules?

That seems a little strange but since matching other properties is more
important.
I will update the spec and make sure that we cover this in our tests.


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:29 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:

> http://dev.w3.org/fxtf/compositing-1/#background-blend-mode says:
>   # If there are fewer items in the list than there are background
>   # images, the remaining background images must use the initial
>   # value.
>
> This is different from all the other background properties, where
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-backgrounds/#layering says:
>   # If a property doesn't have enough comma-separated values to
>   # match the number of layers, the UA must calculate its used value
>   # by repeating the list of values until there are enough.
>
> I'd prefer if the background-blend-mode matched the rules for other
> background properties.  This would simplify implementation, and I
> don't see the rationale for differing here.
>
> -David
>
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