- From: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 07:40:52 +0000
- To: "liam@w3.org" <liam@w3.org>
- CC: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Jet Villegas W3C <w3c@junglecode.net>, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>, "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, "Simon Fraser" <simon.fraser@apple.com>
On Jan 3, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 21:40 -0800, Rik Cabanier wrote: > [...] >> Ok, I see. This is not about implementing 9-slice scaling; you're defining >> a new image function that can do everything that border-image does (which >> includes 9-slice scaling) >> >> You probable want to add the 'fill' keyword as well [1] >> >> 1: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-backgrounds/#border-image-slice-fill > > If border-image were to be extended I'd for sure want to see more > traditional 16-part border images (plus middle) - they are like the > 9-part we have now but with centre images in each segment, and allowing > the extensible parts between corner and middle to differ on each side of > centre: Liam, searching for "16 slice scaling” gives no results for 16 slice scaling but exclusively for “9 slice scaling”. I fear that 16 tiles is too complex to handle for authors anyway. I am not even sure which graphics tool does support 16 tiles today. Do you have more information about current support for 16 slice scaling in productive tooling? Greetings, Dirk > > * >>>>>>> v <<<<<<< * > > and so on all round. This is what has traditionally been used in print, > and I don't see why the Web should be second-class. Yes, there are more > complex borders used in print, and simpler ones, but once you get more > than sixteen segments you're into SVG or images, there's very little > commonality after that. Plus it would get too complex for authors! > > The 16-part model is also found in CSS today in Paged media for running > headers and footers, so there is precedent and even names for the > various segments. > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml >
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