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

I'm ok with the shorthand resetting the background-blend property for now.
When B&B updates, we can do another revision of the blending specification.


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:

> At some point it should move to level 4 of CSS backgrounds and borders.
> For now it is ok to have it in CSS Compositing since this spec moves faster
> IMO.
>
> Greetings
> Dirk
>
> On Sep 19, 2013, at 5:54 AM, "Rik Cabanier" <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>> >
>> > --
>> > 𝄞   L. David Baron                         http://dbaron.org/   𝄂
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>> >              Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
>> >              What I was walling in or walling out,
>> >              And to whom I was like to give offense.
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>> >
>>
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