Bug 44181

Summary: Glass effects: Blurring elements below a given element
Product: WebKit Reporter: Ben Lowery <ben>
Component: CSSAssignee: Dean Jackson <dino>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: Normal CC: dino, simon.fraser, slightlyoff
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Ben Lowery 2010-08-18 09:04:50 PDT
RGBA background colors are wonderful for creating a variety of effects, but I often wish I could apply a blur to an element in the stack, fuzzing out the elements below. This would be very similar to the glass effect on Windows Vista, or the "blur background" effect in iTerm on the Mac.

I suggest adding a new rule to support this:

#someDiv { 
  opacity-blur: <blur radius>;
}
Comment 1 Dean Jackson 2011-04-17 15:25:07 PDT
You can theoretically do with with SVG(XML) filters. Get the background image, apply a blur filter, then composite it before the source graphic. I have not examined to see if this actually works in webkit at the moment.
Comment 2 Dean Jackson 2011-09-22 13:16:02 PDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 68469 ***