[csswg-drafts] [css-images-4] Should gradients even interpolate? (#6569)

tabatkins has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [css-images-4] Should gradients even interpolate? ==
In Images 4, smart interpolation of gradients is defined: <https://drafts.csswg.org/css-images-4/#interpolating-gradients>. This spec text has been around for several years, but afaik has never been implemented; browsers instead just interpolate gradients as generic images (cross-fading them). 

We just agreed (in <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1332#issuecomment-910891011>) to add easing functions as `<color-stop-hint>`s, which would involve some more involved edits here - we'll have to define how to interpolate easing functions. That's not a difficult thing, but it's still work, and if UAs don't expect to actually implement smart gradient interpolation, I'd rather avoid doing that.

So, question to implementors: is there any intention to actually implement the smart gradient interpolation? Or should we give up on it and define that gradients interpolate as generic images?

(tagging @dino because they brought it up in the call)

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6569 using your GitHub account


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