- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:28:16 +0200
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
* Chris Lilley wrote: >BH> it'd be nice to be able to work with gradients for >BH> box-model backgrounds. > >Yes, it would. For this, the backgrounds model needs to offer the >ability to stretch an image, as an alternative to tiling it. (It already >offers this in CSS3). > >Then, an SVG image can be used to create a gradient as a background. >Replicating SVG functionality into CSS3 would be a bad direction. Maybe it is just me, but I dislike the idea to create about six SVG documents for a site like <http://www.blogger.com/start> and depend on SVG support in background-images in the client, maintain all the style sheets (e.g., creating a different set of about six images to use them for an alternate style sheet) rather than adding few lines to the style sheet, just because CSS syntax for gradients would be a "bad direction", so, could you be more specific why it would be bad if web authors could use gradients for their web site using CSS and XHTML only? I fail to see how a CSS syntax for gradients could do any harm, other than maybe less demand for SVG support in XHTML+ CSS user agents.
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