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Re: [css-compositing] should background-blend-mode be reset by the background shorthand?

From: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 20:54:30 -0700
Message-ID: <CAGN7qDDRJ+UyRSBHTHmOHWaF+ZxUVfe3DxuN-BTb-V1NJrp1xg@mail.gmail.com>
To: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Can I extend the 'background' property?
It seems that that should be in the backgrounds and borders spec.


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> Maybe you can add the following sentences:
>
> ""
> The 'background' property is a shorthand for setting the
> 'background-blend-mode' property and other background properties at the
> same place in the style sheet.  The 'background-blend-mode' property is
> part of the layer process for multiple background images <<Link to the
> blending process>>. The <bg-layer> type gets extended by the <blend-mode>
> type, separated by a double bar at the end of the list. [[!CSS3-BGB]]
> ""
>
> Greetings,
> Dirk
>
> On Sep 18, 2013, at 1:40 AM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I agree.
> > Otherwise we won't be able to do make this change once the shorthand can
> include the blendmode as well.
> > What would be the right wording?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:30 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
> wrote:
> > Should the background-blend-mode property be reset by the background
> > shorthand?  I'm inclined to think that it should be.  All of the
> > other per-background-layer properties are, and in the future we
> > might want to allow setting it in the shorthand (which would require
> > that the shorthand resets it).
> >
> > -David
> >
> > --
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>
>
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