- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:20:34 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Cc: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>, Ben Ward <benmward@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Laurens Holst wrote: > > What I mean is that, to determine the colour to draw at a certain > position in a gradient, you need to know the total size of the gradient. > In CSS, the height of a block is usually determined by the content, > which can be loaded incrementally. In the case of inline blocks and > floats, the width is, too. > > So, if you have the background or borders of that block be a gradient, > they have to be redrawn all the time. This is already the case with the following CSS1: background: bottom url(foo.png); ...so that shouldn't be a blocker. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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