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Re: [css3-images] Repeating oblique gradients

From: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:18:04 -0800
Cc: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-id: <F736751B-5E10-4AC5-9154-D1C9B9C49F87@me.com>
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> 
On Dec 1, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> Having background-repeat do something different for linear and radial
> gradients is kinda horrifying.  Even worse is having the color-stop
> repetition for the two types of gradients be through different
> methods.  This combines both of these problems.  T_T

My opinion is that background-repeat should only ever cause tiling to happen. It should not do magic things with gradients, like behave as if the color-stops were duplicated. I think I agree with Tab here, but I'm not able to follow this whole conversation.

Simon
Received on Thursday, 2 December 2010 00:18:54 GMT

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