- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:17:10 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 06/16/2011 06:16 PM, fantasai wrote: > On 06/16/2011 04:31 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Simon Fraser<smfr@me.com> wrote: >>> This confusion of starting point vs. angle is specious. >> >> I know you recently did a Twitter poll to gauge thoughts on the >> matter. I conducted my own and got substantially different results. >> I believe this is because of the way are two questions were worded. >> >> Yours was "Straw poll: if you see linear-gradient(left, black, white), >> do you think "starts at the left", or "ends at the left"?". Mine was >> "Poll: Given that 0deg points up, do you expect >> linear-grad(bottom,black,white) and linear-grad(0deg,black,white) to >> be the same or opposite?". Hopefully you'd agree that my question >> wasn't leading, but it was intended to explicitly hit the "Are these >> consistent when considered together?" angle. > > I think both your questions were biased, and I'd ask simply: > > Given linear-gradient(left, black, white), which side is black? Or rather, Given linear-gradient(left, black, white), which side would you expect to be black? ~fantasai
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