Re: radial-gradient() proposal

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.