Re: [css-images] Gradients with only one color stop

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The syntax allows gradients with only one color stop. It pretty obvious that
> they should render as a solid color, but the spec does not say that
> explicitly.
>
> Still, the non-repeating case is well-defined thanks to this sentence in
> §4.4:
>
>> Before the first color-stop, the line is the color of the first
>> color-stop. After the last color-stop, the line is the color of the
>> last color-stop.
>
>
>
> For repeating gradients, however, the spec might need some clarification. In
> particular, in this paragraph of §4.3:
>
>> If the distance between the first and last color-stops is zero (or
>> rounds to zero due to implementation limitations), the implementation
>> must find the average color of a gradient with the same number and
>> color of color-stops, but with the first and last color-stops an
>> arbitrary non-zero distance apart, and the remaining color-stops
>> equally spaced between them. Then it must render the gradient as a
>> solid-color image equal to that average color.
>
>
> "the first and last color-stops an arbitrary non-zero distance apart" does
> not make sense when the first and last are the same point.
>
> I suggest adding "Otherwise," at the beginning of the quoted paragraph, and
> adding just before it:
>
>> If the gradient has only one color-stop, then it must render as a
>> solid-color image equal to the color of the only color-stop.

Done, plus I fixed another spot or two that I found which assumed that
there must be at least two color-stops.  Hopefully I got them all!

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 9 April 2013 20:09:54 UTC