- From: Sebastian Zartner <sebastianzartner@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:49:31 +0200
- To: Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 12 August 2015 at 02:59, Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org> wrote: > This has come up again at Mozilla recently, so I'd like to propose new > text-overflow functionality where the text is faded out using a mask if it > overflows. > > It would probably make sense to allow authors to specify a length over which > to fade (e.g. over 2em). > > A simple linear gradient would probably be adequate for the mask, but it > might be prudent to leave scope for functionality for authors to specify > their own mask[1]. > > Jonathan > > 1. https://hg.fxtf.org/drafts/raw-file/tip/css-masking-1/index.html Note that this was discussed earlier: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0050.html https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jun/0166.html I don't know the current state of the discussion, though. Sebastian
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