- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:47:38 -0500
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Brad Kemper<brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:00 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> > wrote: > >> I would prefer restricting stops to percentages. The swapping effect >> is confusing, and I don't see any reason you'd /need/ to use lengths >> when you can specify the length of the overall gradient already. > > I can think of plenty of situations where I'd want the whole gradient to be > a fixed distance, regardless of box size, and regardless of angle. I'd like > to be able to set that in a simple grammar, using color-stops only. It's not > nearly as simple if the angle is not a multiple of 90, and I have to use > bg-position. Agreed on this. It requires non-trivial trig (well, it's easy if you remember how to do it, but most people have forgotten enough trig to make it non-trivial) to locate where the starting/ending points should sit with an angle that's not a multiple of 90deg. ~TJ
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