- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:24:16 -0800
- To: Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>
- Cc: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Nov 5, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote: > Yes, where the X-axis points left and the Y-axis points down, and > positive 90deg being the angle taken from the X-axis to the Y-axis > (ie. clockwise). Well, that's just crazy talk. X-axis points right and Y-axis points up in the geometry textbooks I've seen. Even for background-position, X points right, not left. > [...] > Sorry, I've looked through your emails on this thread and I can't > find the examples on the Web you mention. I see your examples of > documents on the Web, but that's different from deployed Web > technologies I was referring to the documents on the Web that show the traditional ways of showing a specified direction angle. The ones that would be familiar to anyone, and would not require a complete mental reversal for authoring gradients.
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