WebKit supports the cool background-clip CSS3 property, which you can use to do some pretty neat stuff. The first time we touched on it was the iPhone Slide-to-unlock idea where we set a gradient to animate through the background of the text. Then we touched on it again for the transparent borders idea.

Let’s take a look at using it to have an image be visibile only through the letters of the text. One more cool thing that we no longer need to drool over print designers ability to do.