Re: Porting fill/stroke (and -opacity variants) to plain CSS

On Jan 23, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:

> On 24/01/13 6:15 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Heya SVGWG, in today's CSSWG call fantasai suggested, to solve another
>> issue, porting SVG's fill and stroke properties to plain CSS, with
>> them applying only to text.
> 
> That's great, I've always wanted color/fill/stroke to be unified somehow!
> 
>> We'll look to existing SVG application of fill/stroke to <text>, and
>> WebKit's use of their proprietary text-stroke and text-fill
>> properties, to inform how they work.  We'll probably define them in
>> the Text Decoration module.
>> 
>> Any issues you anticipate with that?
> 
> First I'd like to know how text-stroke and text-fill work.  How does 
> text-fill interact with color?
> 

Here is a blog post about these properties:

https://www.webkit.org/blog/85/introducing-text-stroke/

Greetings
Dirk