- From: Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:30:16 +1100
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
aargh. I really meant that x points right! sorry. but, yes, y does point down. dean On 06/11/2009, at 10:24, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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