http://google-web-toolkit-contributors.googlegroups.com/web/subref_literal_replacements.patch

On Jan 13, 6:51 pm, skrat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have had a need for a literal() function to accept and replace some
> values from @def. To be specific, I needed to make some transparent
> PNGs working in IE6, which is just not doable withing CssResource at
> this time.
>
> The approach described 
> here:http://osdir.com/ml/GoogleWebToolkitContributors/2009-03/msg00461.html
> that is using literal()value()literal() in order to get this:
>
> .some {
>   filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader
> (src='http://some/url.png',sizingMethod='scale');
>
> }
>
> apparently literal()value()literal() approach produces extera
> whitespace around value(), which makes IE6 stop parsing rest of the
> stylesheet.
>
> I came with solution, which would allow you to use values defined with
> @def or @url, inside IdentValue(), that means in literal() function as
> well. To make use of it, you would write your CSS like this:
>
> .some {
>   filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader
> (src='{tabShadowUrl}',sizingMethod='scale');
>
> }
>
> the values in curly braces gets replaced by value of @def/@url if
> present. My patch only works for one value in a property. If this
> seems any useful, and I hope it is, since it is the only way to get
> transparent PNGs (common use case) working in CssResource & IE6, I
> would welcome any suggestion on how to improve my hackish code, and
> support multiple replacements in a single property. Thank you, the
> patch is in the files, named: subref_literal_replacements.patch
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