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On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:12:13 +0100 (MET) Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
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> James Green writes:
>
> > > JG> Agreed. However, the existance of simple colour gradients in CSS may be
> > > JG> nice.
> > >
> > > I've not actually tested this, but something like the following style
> > > should work:
> > >
> > > HR { width: 100%; height: 1ex;
> > > background-image: url(gradient.gif);
> > > border: none; /* Some browsers may defaultrender a HR as a border */
> > > }
> > >
> > > Then, you can use different classes of HR with different gradients, or
> > > maybe different sizes ...
> >
> > This is not what I intended. When I think of an idea, I like to think
> > of a way whereby the machine can do as much of the work as possible. In
> > asking for gradients, I was thinking somwhere along the line of:
> >
> > HR
> > {
> > width: 100%;
> > left-color: blue;
> > right-color: red;
> > gradient-step: 4
> > }
>
> Color gradients were part of CSS at an early point [1]. They were
> removed since implementors considered them expensive and designers
> didn't shout enough.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-css1-960505.html#background
Could they not be implemented in CSS2 or 3? Comments and suggestions
welcome...
Regards,
James Green
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