- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:32:52 -0700
- To: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, www-style@w3.org
I'm looking at the things coming into www-style, and there's a class of them that are all about filter effects: shadows, opacity, and the like. roc had proposed using the SVG 'filter' property to expand the range of filters beyond shadows and opacity. I think that's a great idea. But the problem we have here is targetting different aspects of the box. We've got requests for targetting: - the entire element, composited - the border layer only - the background layer only - individual background layers - the backdrop only (border + backgrounds) - the composited content of the element minus the backdrop I might even be missing some combinations here. Problem is, that we're going to look at a property explosion if we try to address these separately. Nevermind the overhead, it's going to be a hard-to-control cascading mess if that happens. And the alternative of stuffing them all into one comma- separated property is unweildy for other reasons. (Plus it won't be able to address individual background layers, if we decide to address that.) I don't have any solutions. I just wanted to point out that we should look at all these together. It's part of the reason why I wanted to pull back box-shadow from the css3-background LC: it's a much bigger problem we're looking at here. CCing www-svg, please follow-up to www-style. ~fantasai
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