Bert Bos,
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the shadow is cast by a negative of the alpha channel, then clipped to the actual alpha channel)
The pieces we'd need to address, in various combinations: background layers, border (one piece), content (one piece)) Only adjacent layers would need to be composited together. Drop shadows would then paint immediately below the composited layer. See also fantasai's message on this topic.
filter property would be able to
address these use cases, particularly if parametrized canned filters were
added for commonly desired effects and CSS targets were added e.g. as
described by roc.It is proposed to add media queries to <video> and then
to also define queries for the user's special needs. These new media queries
will go into a new media queries module.
Reviewed status of CSS2.1 test suite. Still on track wrt roadmap. fantasai has a rough coverage report, but is missing many of Microsoft's tests because they don't have the right metadata. (Microsoft's management is preventing Arron from correcting the tests.)
color-correction property with
values default and srgb where default
is UA-defined and srgb corrects untagged images to sRGB.display: run-inWorked through issues summarized in Bert's email
::first-lines and run-ins.Reviewed examples of copyfitting by changing the font size and various past proposals for addressing some of the use cases. Intentions can be split into:
dbaron proposes a copyfit property to trigger these behaviors. An alternate
proposal is to incorporate this into text-justify.
Related behaviors were mentioned: specifically, triggering justification on the last line only if it's longer than a certain threshold; and specifying a minimum length for the last line, which would trigger whole-paragraph justification if the last line were not long enough.
Conclusion is to add some notes to css3-text and leave it for the next active editor to deal with.
font-variant and font feature support in CSSJohn Daggett proposes adding subproperties to font-variant
for allowing access to the more common OpenType features. font-variant
would become a shorthand for font-variant-ligatures,
font-variant-alternates, font-variant-caps,
font-variant-numeric, font-variant-position.
There some concern about fallback behavior for subscript and superscript features, and winding up with either a complete loss of semantics or a double-sub/superscript rendering.
John notes that OpenType has language-sensitive rendering, and proposes allowing an explicit choice of typographic language different from the content language.
There's concern about exposing alternate glyphs from a generic mechanism such as font-variant, because the choices are very font-specific. Proposals include dealing with it in @font-face; and pairing the glyph set number with the font name so that it only triggers on that font name.
Otherwise the WG is mostly in agreement and pressures jdaggett into putting his proposal in the editor's draft. :)
text-overflow: ellipsisResolved: Only horizontal overflow triggers for text-overflow: ellipsis. Add a new keyword for handling ellipsis due to vertical overflow (where the ellipsis appears on the last line only).
Discussed other issues with text-overflow, including:
overflow, whether it prevents overflow, whether
it requires overflow: hidden, what happens with overflow: scroll,
how that makes sense with floats, etc.Apparently some of these questions were resolved over lunch.
Full minutesex definition to be changed to use the parent's element font size if set on font-size (just like em) Rationale: Avoid infinite loops in the spec. :)0.5em fallback in CSS3 Values for when ex height cannot be found.column-rule-color to CSS3 Color vs CSS2.1.text-justify property; the issue is deferred to the next active editor.round keyword for background-repeat and border-image-repeat scales to the nearest whole number of tiles. This will be marked as an issue for feedback in case people prefer different behavior or would like additional controls (e.g. round-up or round-down) keywords).border-radius. They refer to a percentage of the corresponding dimension of the box (so border-radius: 50% gives an oval).box-shadow from CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 3: work on box-shadow outside the module for the time being, possibly re-merge with draft later. Rationale: drop-shadows seem to need a lot more discussion, but the rest of the draft is ready to move on.border-image resizes to fit small boxes the same way as border-radius (proportional in both dimensions)Short meeting this time. We just reviewed the status of the 2007 Snapshot (Beijing Profile), 2.1 issues, and TPAC plans.