- From: Lea Verou via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:51:09 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
It is quite unfortunate that this is the behavior we have to settle on, but it's also not realistic to change it at this point. A lesson for everyone about what happens when we underspecify things, lol. > Has this issue been resolved? No edits have happened after the May 2019 resolution and from a quick look, the spec still seems to imply that hints do not behave like a regular color stop in a couple places, e.g. here (bold mine): > Note: The [transition hint](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-images-4/#color-transition-hint) specifies where the “halfway color”—the 50% blend between the colors of the two surrounding color stops—should be placed. **When the hint is exactly halfway between the two surrounding color stops, the above interpolation algorithm happens to produce the ordinary linear interpolation.** If the hint is placed anywhere else, it produces a smooth exponential curve between the surrounding color stops, with the “halfway color” occurring exactly where the hint specifies. -- GitHub Notification of comment by LeaVerou Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3931#issuecomment-3975757980 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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