- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:55:43 -0800
- To: Brendan Kenny <bckenny@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Brendan Kenny <bckenny@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. An angle, a start point and a length
> or
> 2. An angle, which forms an assumed axis covering the entire box and
> color stops (including beginning and end) as lengths along that axis.
> Without lengths it could be assumed we start at 0% and end at 100%.
>
> I'm torn on which seems better. (1) would give an author more obvious
> control (without having to do any napkin calculations to find
> percentages they want)
I'm okay with requiring basic napkin calculation to handle the case of
knowing what %s you want the stops to be at *and* knowing what length
you want the entire gradient to be. That's a trivial enough
calculation (I want a 25% stop in a 260px gradient, so 260 * .25 =
65px) that I don't think it's a problem we need to solve. It's when
an author has to do trig to solve reasonably common cases that we have
a problem.
> but, given the limited use cases ("I just want
> a gradient at this angle"), (2) might make more sense in its
> simplicity.
Can we recall what the use-case was for angle+point in the first
place? It would, I think, simplify the mental model of things
considerably if that can be dropped. Then you'd have only three ways
of specifying a gradient - angle, point, and default, and all three
will work intuitively.
~TJ
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