- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:08:49 +0100 (BST)
- To: Per Andersson <per.andersson@cherry.se>
- cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Per Andersson wrote:
> I've got a suggestion for an addition to CSS: BLEND. It would affect
> the background of a table cell in that way that it takes two or more
> colors and perform a color blend ranging between the colors. It could
> also have a DIRECTION directive, specifying horizontal or vertical
> blend.
This has already been suggested. It is a good idea, but it is likely that
SVG [1] would provide a better of doing this than CSS ever could.
I would suggest that CSS _not_ provide a native way of doing gradients.
SVG is a low-bandwidth alternative that will provide the same
functionality, but in a more powerful way. Once SVG is established, we
will be able to use CSS to draw gradients like this:
td { background: green url(green-gradient.svg); color: white; }
...where green-gradient.svg is an SVG graphic which draws a radial
gradient centered at 58% 32%, etc.
[1] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
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