- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:10:59 -0500
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:02 PM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > Robert O'Callahan wrote: >> >> One other thing... >> >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:40 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net >> <mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>> wrote: >> >> * sgalineau can definitely see gradients used for border-image >> >> >> I can't, really, at least not as-is. Nor do I see them as being useful for >> 'list-style-image', 'cursor' or 'content'. >> >> Orthogonality is cool, but actual use-cases beyond 'background' seem >> pretty thin. If we have trouble specifying the behaviour of gradients for >> those other properties (because there's no natural size to use for the >> gradient, perhaps), I think we could just disallow them. > > Sounds like a case for making <gradient> separate from <image>. As Brad mentioned, though, we already have *images* without intrinsic dimensions in SVG. How do we deal with those? Are they unsuitable for use in list-style-image, etc? Whatever solution is used for SVG without intrinsic dimensions, an identical solution should be applicable to gradients. ~TJ
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