Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-images-4] Gradients with a single color stop

The CSS Working Group just discussed `[css-images-4] Gradients with a single color stop`.

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&lt;astearns> topic: [css-images-4] Gradients with a single color stop<br>
&lt;astearns> github issue: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1576<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: Intended to be allowed in images 3, was prose in the spec...<br>
&lt;fantasai> fantasai: Actually, no, the CR of gradients did not include it in prose or grammar<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: But anyway, would like to relax in Images 4<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: Doesn't allow a lot of use cases, but it's simple case and improves debugging / preview<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: Can quickly see the gradient<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: Use case of single color image isn't great, because we have image() function for that<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: I'm fine either way<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: But would allow it if it was up to me<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: Thoughts?<br>
&lt;dbaron> seems reasonable to me if there aren't compatibility issues -- and if implementations can update in a reasonably synchronized way<br>
&lt;fantasai> Florian: Since it's a syntax you could easily accidentally write, hoping for it to do somehting, even though it currently does not, there's a non-trivial risk of web pages out there relying on it not working<br>
&lt;fantasai> Florian: Maybe not, but could be a case<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: Could we get stats?<br>
&lt;fantasai> ChrisL: People wanted to do solid colors and animate ...<br>
&lt;fantasai> ChrisL: There were people who wanted to have a single color gradient<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: We have image(&lt;color>)<br>
&lt;fantasai> ChrisL: Which way should we move people , towards image() or linear-gradient()?<br>
&lt;fantasai> TabAtkins: Would prefer to move ppl to image(), much clearer and shorter<br>
&lt;fantasai> ChrisL: It's also unintuitive to get that effect.<br>
&lt;fantasai> Florian: If you use it as a start point for an animation, though, then linear(blue, blue) ...<br>
&lt;fantasai> TabAtkins: For animations, you need to match up number of stops anyway<br>
&lt;fantasai> leaverou: So the main use case seems to be debugging / tooling<br>
&lt;Florian> s/.../ is easily written/<br>
&lt;fantasai> astearns: We are over time, not hearing any implementers lining up for this<br>
&lt;fantasai> astearns: Maybe solicit feedback directly from implementers, if anyone wants to champion then add back to agenda<br>
&lt;fantasai> astearns: If not, shouldn't go in spec<br>
&lt;fantasai> astearns: Thanks everyone, we're done.<br>
&lt;fantasai> Meeting closed.<br>
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