- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:54:40 -0800
- To: Ryan Seddon <seddon.ryan@gmail.com>
- Cc: robert@ocallahan.org, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Ryan Seddon <seddon.ryan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> > wrote: >> >> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm finally happy with my radial-gradient() syntax. You can view it >>> at http://www.xanthir.com/:4bhipd (scroll down past the >>> linear-gradient() examples). >> >> >> We landed an implementation of this spec on Firefox trunk today --- with a >> -moz prefix, of course --- so it'll be in the latest nightly build by now. >> We think it's pretty complete. So people who want to experiment with this in >> a browser can now do so. Feedback appreciated. > > Why was linear-gradient, radial-gradient decided? To me it would make more > sense to have the syntax as gradient-linear, gradient-radial, > gradient-repeating-radial etc. They're all gradients and would make more > sense, especially if scanning a CSS document you could determine a lot > quicker that those styles are all gradients. SVG uses <linearGradient> and <radialGradient> already, so it's nice to conform to the existing naming scheme (modulo the CSS preference for dashes over camelCase). ~TJ
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