Re: [css3-images] Making gradients readable

On Oct 30, 2011, at 10:25 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:

> And while I'm at it, I'm going to toss in the idea that linear-gradient(), like
> radial-gradient(), should be able to take an explicit size argument up front,
> because if I'm resizing a fixed-length gradient that has 15 color stops from 5em
> to 7em, I'd rather not change all the color stops.
> 
>  linear-gradient( <length>?
>                   [ <angle> | from <side-or-corner> ]
>                   as <color-stop> [, <color-stop>]+ )
> 
>  /* photocopy edge effect */
>  linear-gradient(4em from top as
>                  0% #00, 20% #4F, 27% #6F, 60% #E6, 67% #F0, 74% #F5, 100% #FF)

I think it is likely that 99% of all real gradient usage on Web pages will be 2-3 color stops. I think we could safely leave this extra feature until CSS4, if we are trying to move things along and not make them more complicated. 

Received on Monday, 31 October 2011 13:24:22 UTC