- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 05:48:56 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Philip Taylor wrote: > > The spec says: > > "Support for actually painting gradients is optional. Instead of > painting the gradients, user agents may instead just paint the first > stop's color." > > Firefox, Opera and Safari support gradients. Rhino Canvas does too. The > recent (unreleased) Konqueror with <canvas> also does gradients. > ExplorerCanvas attempts to support gradients, despite getting them > utterly wrong - presumably it was decided that buggy gradient support > was better than conformingly following the spec's option of no > gradients. I can't remember any other implementations now. > > Optional features are harder to test, and a worse implementation (which > lacks the feature entirely) could claim better conformance than a better > implementation (which has the feature, and maybe fails in a few obscure > edge cases). Since every implementer has decided to implement gradients, > it seems there is no compelling reason to not implement it. So, the > "Support for actually painting gradients is optional" paragraph should > be removed. Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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