Unprefix -webkit-background-clip for text and make it an alias

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Origin trial (Chrome 120)
Intent stage: None

Breaking change: Yes
Enterprise impact: None
Chromium flag: CSSBackgroundClipUnprefix
Spec maturity: Working draft
Web Platform Tests: Yes

WPT details: wpt.fyi/css/css-backgrounds/background-clip/clip-text-dynamic-2.html

Summary

It allows to use the unprefixed version for background-clip: text and makes -webkit-background-clip an alias for background-clip. Also, it drops support for non-suffixed keywords (content, padding and border) for better round-trip with alias.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-backgrounds/#background-clip
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping — Firefox doesn't support keywords with no suffix for prefixed version
Safari: Shipped/Shipping — Safari supports keywords with no suffix (border, content, padding), but only for prefixed version
Web developers: No signals

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=css%2Fcss-backgrounds
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Unprefix%20-webkit-background-clip%20for%20text%20and%20make%20it%20an%20alias
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Unprefix%20-webkit-background-clip%20for%20text%20and%20make%20it%20an%20alias
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Unprefix%20-webkit-background-clip%20for%20text%20and%20make%20it%20an%20alias

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