- From: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:32:37 +0000
- To: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
It is my understanding that this was a decided thing long ago. I sent links to 5 different discussions from the archive that capture the closure from random scattered discussions to resolution to move forward with "to <keyword>" which is the TelCon link that Tab referred to. That said... > Another reason that I see _direction to_ notation as wrong is that the > syntax can not be extended in future and have it make sense. If it was > possible to have the beginning of the gradient from 'top' and the end of > the gradient to 'bottom right', > > -----T----- > | \ | > | \ | > | \ | > | \| > ---------BR > > then having the 'to bottom' instead of 'top' complicate things. You > could write this, > _top to bottom right_ You can easily consider this an extension to today's syntax. CSS3 [ [ <angle> | to <side-or-corner> ] ,]? Options: - specify an angle (27deg) - specify a side (to right) - specify a corner (to bottom right) - specify nothing: defaults to "to bottom" CSS.2015 [ [ <angle> | [ [<side-or-corner>]? to <side-or-corner> ] ] ,]? Options: - specify an angle (27deg) - specify a side (to right) - specify a corner (to bottom right) - specify a side and corner (top to bottom right) (and the other 3 flavors of pairings) - specify nothing: defaults to "to bottom", rendered the same as "top to bottom" Heck, this also allows <side-or-corner> to change from side/corner to a full <position> if you like. Isn't that lovely? With that and calc you can do all kinds of stuff that's better suited for SVG, but have at it. Lobby for it in CSS > 3 if you like; not sure I'd support the (IMO) gratuitous complexity increase impact on CSS though. > where the reverse does not make sense. > _to bottom from top left_ I don't know how you come to this conclusion, and at the moment I don't have the interest to try to unravel it. I'm weary of the cyclic discussions that some people seem to enjoy having. I don't see any evidence of new concerns or unaddressed issues w/r/t the LC in this rehash.
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