Re: [css-masking] Ic issue 17: mask source and mask image

Hi fantasai,

On Dec 11, 2013, at 6:39 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:

>>> 
>>>   8. The use of 'mask source' and 'mask image' in the spec is confusing.
>>>      There need to be separate concepts for the mask introduced by the
>>>      background-inspired mask properties and by the border-image-inspired
>>>      mask properties. Once these concepts are named, defined, and
>>>      used consistently, we can have a clearer model for understanding
>>>      CSS masking.
>>> 
>>>   9. The definition of 'clipping path' in the Terminology section is
>>>      more confusing than helpful. Just <dfn> the first instance of
>>>      the term in the Clipping Paths section.
>> 
>> I’ll do.
> 
> #8 is particularly important. I find the spec hard to understand
> because of it.


mask source does now only apply to the <mask> element. mask image is used for the actual mask “layer”, so the resulting image that is used to do the mask operation. I hope this addresses your conveners and I can close issue 17[1].

Greetings,
Dirk

[1] http://dev.w3.org/fxtf/masking/issues-lc-2013.html#issue-17

Received on Saturday, 12 April 2014 05:58:19 UTC