- From: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:34:52 +0000
- To: Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com>, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
You are correct, I meant 45deg in the square box case. (Was trying to keep it 'simple'.) -Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: Florian Rivoal [mailto:florianr@opera.com] > Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 1:51 AM > To: Simon Fraser; Tab Atkins Jr.; Brian Manthos > Cc: www-style list > Subject: Re: [css3-images] Summary of recent gradient issues > > > I think "upwards rightwards" and "rightwards upwards" are both fine. > > > > What I took issue with was "bottom left" meaning "upwards > rightwards". > > I was fine with "up right" meaning "upwards rightwards". > > > > Compass directions* would be simplest, but that would apparently > incur > > issues with globalization as per prior mails on this topic. > > > > * N=0deg, NE=45deg, etc. > > Compass directions don't work, because as you said NE means 45deg, but > "upwards rightwards" does not mean that. It means towards the upper- > right > corner of the box. That is only 45 degrees when the box is square, and > the > whole reason we need these keywords is to be able to point towards the > corner of non-square boxes. > > - Florian
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