- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:05:46 -0700
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>, divya manian <divya.manian@gmail.com>, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Brian, Brad, this isn't productive. Could we stop? Here's the deal. The keywords *will* change in some way. Whether that means changing them to something else, adding something to make them explicitly directional, or dropping them entirely, I'm not sure of quite yet. But at this point the meaning of the first gradient argument is such that it's unclear whether a point is supposed to be the start or the end, and that's a bad thing. This is unrelated to certain other properties, like vertical-align, as they don't have the start/end confusion. It's that confusion that's getting me. I dislike *all* APIs where a directional keyword can be legitimately interpreted in opposite way, because I've been confused by them too often. Informal, small-sample polls have confirmed that the confusion exists. I will fix it. ~TJ
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