Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> CSS: Extended tiling. Proposal

Wrong list; this should go to www-style. Also, please look at the
proposed CSS3 borders and backgrounds modules:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-border-20021107/ 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-background-20020802/ 

> To add additional attributes:
> 
> background-image-margin-top: size;
> background-image-margin-bottom: size;
> background-image-margin-left: size;
> background-image-margin-right: size;
> 
> These margin values describe nine areas in the source image: four corners,
> four sides and one middle section.
> While being rendered onto box background, corners of the image will be
> copied to the corners of the destination rectangle. Top, bottom, right and
> left sides of the destination rectangle will be tiled by the corresponding
> sections of the source image horizontally and vertically. The middle section
> of the destination rectangle will be tiled by the source middle section.
> 
> Illustration:
> 
> Source image:
> http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/images/tileex.png 
> will be rendered as
> http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/images/tileexsample.jpg 
> using "extended" CSS:
>   background-image-margin-top: 16px;
>   background-image-margin-bottom: 13px;
>   background-image-margin-left: 16px;
>   background-image-margin-right: 13px;
> 
> More complex example (little bit ugly but nevertheless...):
> http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmengine/screenshots/tablebackgrounds.png 
> 
> Being implemented these four attributes will cover "rounded corners" cases
> and many other including
> all currently available by using background-repeat, background-attachment,
> background-position attributes.
> 
> I've implemented this schema in my experimental HTML renderer.
> Let me know if somebody wants to see this approach in action.
> 
> Andrew Fedoniouk.
> http://terrainformatica.com 
>
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