Comments on: WebKit keeps going with CSS Masks

By: Eric the .5b

Eric the .5b — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:49:36 +0000

These things always end up implemented in one browser or another.

Then people complain about IE or Firefox not implementing this vendor-specific stuff.

Then people complain about lack of adherence to web standards.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:51:49 +0000

I think that most of us are aware of that but it’s thanks to showcases like this that makes the web evolve.

By: ckorhonen

ckorhonen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:18:09 +0000

I understand that, but we all know the lag between proposal and mainstream implementation.

Don’t get me wrong, we are going in the right direction, but we are at least a few years away from the point where we can use this kind of thing as standard in our code.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:48:46 +0000

@ronselling, ckorhonen: Like Dave Hyatt stated, these will be proposed to CSS.

By: ckorhonen

ckorhonen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:59:30 +0000

As much as I like this as a showcase of where things should be heading, I don’t see the value in this to the developer – being Webkit specific, there are very few instances where this would be practical (Adobe AIR, iPhone apps perhaps?).

By: ronselling

ronselling — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:24:30 +0000

For the sake of the web and its future: this should be a showcase and not be taken into production. Please think about Webstandards, bitte.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:10:07 +0000

Very useful, seeing as this would serve as an exellent way to incorporate picture frames and the like to graphics without the need to introduce specialized markup for the design. It’s my profound belief that structure and design should be separate.

By: Dylan Schiemann

Dylan Schiemann — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:40:40 +0000

Very cool, I hope CSS Variables are next: http://disruptive-innovations.com/zoo/cssvariables/