Hi Helmut,

Just to clarify: Mike is asking for Mozilla and Safari standards positions
issues, not additional developer signals.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM Helmut Januschka <[email protected]>
wrote:

> trying to figure out to get signals
>
> Am Mi., 2. Sept. 2026 um 20:19 Uhr schrieb Helmut Januschka <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> sadly, same as on my other feature entry, i forgot the checkmark, fixed!
>> sorry
>>
>> [email protected] schrieb am Montag, 24. August 2026 um 19:23:24
>> UTC+2:
>>
>>> On 8/23/26 10:06 a.m., Helmut Januschka wrote:
>>>
>>> *Contact emails*
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>> *Specification*
>>> https://drafts.csswg.org/css-shapes-1/#basic-shape-functions
>>>
>>> *Summary*
>>> The circle() and ellipse() CSS basic-shape functions accept the
>>> closest-corner and farthest-corner radius keywords, in addition to the
>>> existing closest-side and farthest-side. These keywords resolve to the
>>> Euclidean distance from the shape center to the nearest or farthest corner
>>> of the reference box, matching the long-standing behavior of
>>> radial-gradient(). They work in clip-path, shape-outside, and offset-path,
>>> so the same shape syntax accepted by gradients now works for shapes. CL:
>>> https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7767079
>>>
>>> *Blink component*
>>> Blink>CSS
>>> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3ECSS%22>
>>>
>>> *Web Feature ID*
>>> shapes <https://webstatus.dev/features/shapes>
>>>
>>> *Motivation*
>>> The <radial-extent> keywords closest-corner and farthest-corner are
>>> defined for radial gradients and have been interoperably supported there
>>> for years. The circle() and ellipse() basic-shape syntax in CSS Shapes
>>> Module Level 1 shares the <shape-radius> production with gradients, but
>>> Blink (and Gecko) only accepted closest-side / farthest-side for the basic
>>> shapes. That means authors who want a circle that exactly inscribes the
>>> reference box's farthest corner have to hand-compute sqrt(w*w + h*h)/2 or
>>> fall back to a radial-gradient() mask, even though the keyword exists in
>>> the same value space. This change fills in the missing keywords so basic
>>> shapes have the full <radial-extent> set: closest-corner: the distance from
>>> the center to the closest corner of the reference box. farthest-corner: the
>>> distance from the center to the farthest corner of the reference box. For
>>> ellipse(), which accepts two independent <shape-radius> values in current
>>> implementations, each axis resolves independently to the corner Euclidean
>>> distance. A spec ambiguity exists about whether ellipse() should accept one
>>> <radial-extent> covering both axes (per the spec text) or two independent
>>> ones (current implementation reality). This was discussed in
>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13814 and the conclusion
>>> from the thread was that the existing two-value interpretation is fine to
>>> keep.
>>>
>>> *Initial public proposal*
>>> *No information provided*
>>>
>>> *TAG review*
>>> *No information provided*
>>>
>>> *TAG review status*
>>> Not applicable
>>>
>>> *Goals for experimentation*
>>> None
>>>
>>> *Risks*
>>>
>>>
>>> *Interoperability and Compatibility*
>>> *No information provided*
>>>
>>> *Gecko*: No signal
>>>
>>> *WebKit*: No signal
>>>
>>> Can we request signals?
>>>
>>>
>>> *Web developers*: No signals
>>>
>>> *Other signals*:
>>>
>>> *WebView application risks*
>>>
>>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such
>>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>>> *No information provided*
>>>
>>>
>>> *Debuggability*
>>> *No information provided*
>>>
>>> *Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows,
>>> Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?*
>>> No
>>>
>>> Why not?
>>>
>>>
>>> *Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
>>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>?*
>>> Yes
>>>
>>>
>>> *Flag name on about://flags*
>>> *No information provided*
>>>
>>> *Finch feature name*
>>> BasicShapeCornerRadius
>>>
>>> *Rollout plan*
>>> Will ship enabled for all users
>>>
>>> *Requires code in //chrome?*
>>> False
>>>
>>> *Tracking bug*
>>> https://crbug.com/361617757
>>>
>>> *Estimated milestones*
>>> Shipping on desktop 155
>>> Shipping on Android 155
>>> Shipping on WebView 155
>>> Shipping on iOS 155
>>>
>>> *Anticipated spec changes*
>>>
>>> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or
>>> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues
>>> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may
>>> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of
>>> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).
>>> *No information provided*
>>>
>>> *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status*
>>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5100672946143232?gate=5910108950364160
>>>
>>> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status
>>> <https://chromestatus.com/>.
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