[css-paint-api] Try and find a way to access images w/o using a custom property about css-houdini-drafts HOT 5 OPEN

The only thing that's kinda close to this is that, theoretically, things like list-style: bullet can render the bullet with an image. There's nothing else in CSS that creates something image-like without the user explicitly asking for a URL.

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Aren't bullets & co just unicode glyphs?
(in which case you can draw them using drawText)

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For us these are just paths painted onto the canvas.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/third_party/WebKit/Source/core/paint/ListMarkerPainter.cpp&l=22

I can't think of anything which magically accesses a resource on the network magically.

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Yeah, my point is that they're allowed to be that. In actual browsers they're either text or manually-drawn stuff, but there's nothing preventing them from being a network-fetched url. (It would just be a terrible idea.)

That's the only place where it's even possible, tho. Nowhere else does a built-in CSS property even have a chance of fetching anything.

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