[webkit-dev] webkit-resource: referring to resources in User Agent stylesheet

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Tue Apr 26 19:50:26 PDT 2011


On Apr 26, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jer Noble <jer.noble at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> FWIW, WebKit/mac generates these images programmatically, so there's not
>> really a URL for "play button hover state" which can be targeted.  That
>> said, if the URL scheme could be overloaded to handle generated content, I
>> guess this could still work.  WebKit/mac could either parse the URL path and
>> special case "media-controls/play-button-hover.png", or define our own URL
>> scheme, e.g. "background:
>> url(webkit-generated:media-play-button-playing-hover);"  But then we're just
>> back to something functionally identical to -webkit-appearance.
>> I guess what I'm getting at is, if support for webkit-resource: is added,
>> great.  However, at least one port will still need the old behavior.
> 
> Yes! The -webkit-appearance must stay. This is purely an additive thing.

Would we end up with different stylesheets for different ports, then? (Or is media control styling already different between ports?)

Regards,
Maciej




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