Re: Extending the text-overflow/overflow property to support fading out

[Jared Wein]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert O'Callahan" <rob...@ocallahan.org>
> To: "Jonathan Watt" <jw...@jwatt.org>
> Cc: dev-pl...@lists.mozilla.org
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:11:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Extending the text-overflow/overflow property to support fading out
>
> I'm pretty sure an unconditional mask with a linear gradient on the
> right-hand-end of the text could be achieved using 'mask-box-image'
> and
> slicing appropriately:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css-masking/#the-mask-box-image.
> That's not currently implemented in Gecko, but it's worth
> implementing.

This seems like it would do the job and it wouldn't require us to create a new specification. Can this get on someone's radar to implement support for it?

Thanks,
Jared

[Nicholas Cameron]

It's next on my list, hopefully I'll get to it next week or the week after.

[Jared Wein]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jared Wein" <jw...@mozilla.com>
> To: dev-pl...@lists.mozilla.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:58:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Extending the text-overflow/overflow property to support fading out
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert O'Callahan" <rob...@ocallahan.org>
> > To: "Jonathan Watt" <jw...@jwatt.org>
> > Cc: dev-pl...@lists.mozilla.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:11:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: Extending the text-overflow/overflow property to
> > support fading out
> >
> > I'm pretty sure an unconditional mask with a linear gradient on the
> > right-hand-end of the text could be achieved using 'mask-box-image'
> > and
> > slicing appropriately:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/css-masking/#the-mask-box-image.
> > That's not currently implemented in Gecko, but it's worth
> > implementing.
>
> This seems like it would do the job and it wouldn't require us to
> create a new specification. Can this get on someone's radar to
> implement support for it?

I filed bug 877294 for this.

Cheers,
Jared