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MInutes and Resolutions 2009-10-28

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Minutes and Resolutions 2009-10-21

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CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders Last Call for Comments

The CSS Working Group just published a Last Call for Comments Working Draft of CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 3. Please review the draft and send your feedback. We'll be accepting comments through 17 November 2009. (Note that feature requests are likely to be deferred to CSS4.) The best place for feedback is the CSSWG's official mailing list www-style@w3.org, but we'll also look at any comments posted (or linked to) from the cross-post on CSS3.info.

There are a couple issues we're specifically looking for feedback on:

Rounding vs. Scaling Down

The round option for background-repeat and border-image-repeat resizes images to fit the nearest whole number of tiles, rather than always scaling up or always scaling down. Rounding keeps closer to the intended size and, in the case where one dimension is fixed (e.g. in ‘border-image’), keeps the image closer to the intended aspect ratio. This is almost certainly the best solution for vector images and high-resolution raster images. However, if the given image is a low-resolution raster image, it will require interpolating pixels, which can look bad. See "Rounding Extremes" for illustrations.

The workaround is to specify a higher-resolution image (e.g. by shrinking from the original with background-size or border-image-width). Possible spec solutions include introducing a separate keyword that always scales down, and changing the algorithm so that we force scaling down whenever interpolation would be required for scaling up. So the options here are

  1. Leave the spec as-is (always round to nearest): the workaround is good enough for me.
  2. Trigger forced downscaling when interpolation is needed: avoiding interpolation is important to me and I don't mind that the exact number of tiles is unpredictable and the resulting aspect ratio might skewed a little extra.
  3. Default to rounding for round, but I want an extra keyword to force downscaling in all cases (including vector images) because [...].
  4. Something else?

Please comment on what you prefer and why. (The more specific you can be "for example, this image that I would want to use [...]", the easier it will be for us to understand your point.)

box-break naming

The previous draft included two properties for controlling behavior at box breaks (line breaks / column breaks / page breaks): border-break for controlling whether the border is drawn at the break, and background-break for controlling whether the background is drawn for each box individually or for the whole element as if it were broken after painting.

Hyatt suggested merging the two, so the current draft has a single box-break property instead. The two values mean, basically, "render backgrounds and borders for this box, and then slice it up" and "break the box and then render backgrounds and borders for each box individually". The value names aren't particularly clear, however, so we were wondering if anyone has better ideas.

Conclusion

So take a look at the new draft and send us your comments! This is your last chance to give feedback on this module: if all goes well, we'll be publishing the Candidate Recommendation in time for Christmas, and given the state of experimental implementations right now, I expect things to move rapidly from there.

MInutes and Resolutions 2009-10-14

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MInutes and Resolutions 2009-10-07

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MInutes and Resolutions 2009-09-30

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CSS2.1 Testing Roadmap / Minutes and Resolutions 2009-09-23

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Minutes and Resolutions 2009-09-09

Short meeting this time. We just reviewed the status of the 2007 Snapshot (Beijing Profile), 2.1 issues, and TPAC plans.

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