Re: Gradients in CSS3?

On 8/15/05, Maniac <Maniac@softwaremaniacs.org> wrote:
> 
> Ben Ward wrote:
> 
> >As for syntax, perhaps:
> >   background-color: gradient(start-color, end-color, direction);
> >
> >Where the colours can be any valid CSS colour value, and direction is
> >specified in degrees (0-259).
> >
> >
> May be not degrees then? If one want a gradient from top left corner to
> bottom right of a rectangle 134x57, it would be non-trivial to calculate
> a degree in mind.
> 
> I think specifying to points with 4 coordinates would be better. It
> would also work for stretching rectangles:
> 
> background-color: gradient(blue, white, 0, 0, 100%, 100%);

How much of this desire to put it into CSS is because nobody wants to
implement SVG and/or nobody thinks authors will learn SVG just to get
gradients?

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Orion Adrian

Received on Monday, 15 August 2005 14:04:44 UTC