CSS3 Spec for multiple background images

if you haven't tried it yet, don't. you'll hate your life.

[Don_Hoagie]

I'm sure someone here has said something before about the CSS3 spec for layering multiple backgrounds... but I just tried it last night for the first time.

[w3.org ]

It's a miracle. A miracle of simplicity. I cried tears of joy. Then I remembered that I was using the uber-sheik Safari, and that this technique certainly wouldn't work in those also-rans you PC users call web browsers ;). But i looked anyway...

and then I cried tears of disappointment, as I commenced with having to create 2 divs (1 of them of course being a content-less graphic hack) just to get a sexy border on a liquid column. Doesn't sound like a big difference, but it's the principle of the thing... totally anti-simplicity, anti-separation of style and content, anti-presentation versatility. Anti-CSS. Plus the fact that anyone who isn't talented in the CSS arena would probably have ended up creating 3 or 4 divs.

If you have Safari and haven't tried the CSS3 multiple background capability, don't try it. It's like handing one of those huge spiral lollipops to a 6 year old, and then taking it away after they got 2 licks in.

[zackattack]

It's a miracle. A miracle of simplicity.

“Seek simplicity but distrust it”
Alfred North Whitehead (British Mathematician and Philosopher, 1861-1947)

ZA