Comments on: What I want from CSS 3, part 1

By: Ant

Ant — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:20:03 +0000

I want @enchance @-rule. It would be something like this:

@enchance (text-shadow:0 0 1px rgba(120,120,120,.5){

h1{
color:transparent;
text-shadow:0 0 1px rgba(120,120,120,.5)
}

}

h1{
color:gray;
}

So if browser support text-shadow AND rgba, it will add shadow to h1 and make it transparent, otherwise, it will be gray (so text would become readable on older browsers).

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:07:39 +0000

proposals to be added to the css variables described at: http://www.css3.info/summary-of-the-two-current-css-constants-proposals/

proposal 1

To exist a new kind of variable – image variable defined as follows:

@define imagvars{ imagevar1 { rect(20,30,40,50) url(http://www.example.com/images.image.jpg)} , imagevar2 { rect(60,70,80,90) url(http://www.example.com/images.image.jpg)}}

where rect(60,70,80,90) is the square that defines the image on the sprite (sprite – an image that contains a group of images)

after that we can apply the slice of the image as follows:

background-image:var(imagevar1);

is instead of the proposal to add background-image-crop to css3(i mean to exist a modality to crop images for background as well, similarly to clip:rect() property )

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proposal 2

inheritance for style-sets

instead of @define style-sets { noteBox { border-style: solid; padding: 1em; border-radius: 1em; } quoteBox { margin: 1em; } }

for applying inheritance will be redefine as follows

@redefine style-sets { noteBox2{ noteBox { border-style: dashed; }}}

will have the same result as defining a new style as follows
@define style-sets { noteBox2 { border-style: dashed; padding: 1em; border-radius: 1em; }}

By: Chris Bloom

Chris Bloom — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:09:39 +0000

@Chris: I was thinking the same thing about using a negative text-indent on the first line. However, any lines after a hard-break ([br]) would be indented along with the soft-wrapped lines. Using p tags instead of br tags would work only if the p tags were styled to not have any top or bottom margins, but if the reader was using a non-visual browser the poem wouldn’t “read” properly.

By: Chris Maurice

Chris Maurice — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:06:31 +0000

While it is a bit distasteful, you should be able to implement this by having each line in a block and then setting the indent-related CSS properties on that block to indent any text that is given a soft line-break.

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:12:11 +0000

Lobby the HTML and CSS Working Groups. That’ll be fun.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:48:15 +0000

We've used TEI-Lite to mark up historical correspondence. It has also been used to mark up poetry so maybe something can be done using TEI elements inside XHTML documents. After all, there's nothing wrong with using elements from more than one namespace in an XML document, as long as your browser or reader or whatever can understand them. Anyway, here's the Wikipedia page for TEI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative