  [css3-background] box-shadow and border-image  From: fantasai
<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:41:23
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style@w3.org Following up on today's discussion and Chris's
observations in it I wanted to present my position on this issue
very clearly.  A few premises:     First: The purpose of 'box-
shadow' is to create the effect of           cutting the box out
of the canvas and shifting it up           above the canvas. It
is not about drop-shadowing the           foreground content.
Drop-shadowing all or part of the           foreground content
is a cool feature, but it's a different           feature. Not
part of this discussion. See e.g. roc's work           on SVG
filters for HTML. [1]     Second: box-shadow as a fallback for
failed border-image loads           is IMHO a very minor
concern, and not enough to block           significant use cases
for box-shadow. Fallback design           for when images are
turned off is a general