- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:02:33 -0500
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: "robert@ocallahan.org" <robert@ocallahan.org>, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Brad Kemper<brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:32 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >> Overall, I believe both of my syntax proposals (for linear and radial) >> would support this sort of repeating fine, though I think it's >> slightly weird to key it off of background-repeat. I can see the >> appeal, though, of saying that repeat behavior is image-type-specific. > > I feel that the emphasis for CSS gradient "images" should be on the > commonest cases, written simply, with little (if any) special magic for how > they repeat in backgrounds. It seems to me that endlessly repeating radial > gradients would be pretty uncommon, and should be left to SVG for that. If > gradient is an image type in CSS, it should just behave like an image. I agree with this sentiment. I'm not *entirely* certain of what I want to do with it, but the focus on solving the commonest cases and leaving the rest to SVG is 100% something I agree with. ~TJ
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