- From: Brendan Kenny <bckenny@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:13:44 -0600
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Brendan Kenny <bckenny@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1. An angle, a start point and a length
>> or
>> 2. An angle, which forms an assumed axis covering the entire box and
>> color stops (including beginning and end) as lengths along that axis.
>> Without lengths it could be assumed we start at 0% and end at 100%.
>>
>> I'm torn on which seems better. (1) would give an author more obvious
>> control (without having to do any napkin calculations to find
>> percentages they want)
>
> I'm okay with requiring basic napkin calculation to handle the case of
> knowing what %s you want the stops to be at *and* knowing what length
> you want the entire gradient to be. That's a trivial enough
> calculation (I want a 25% stop in a 260px gradient, so 260 * .25 =
> 65px) that I don't think it's a problem we need to solve. It's when
> an author has to do trig to solve reasonably common cases that we have
> a problem.
>
>> but, given the limited use cases ("I just want
>> a gradient at this angle"), (2) might make more sense in its
>> simplicity.
>
> Can we recall what the use-case was for angle+point in the first
> place? It would, I think, simplify the mental model of things
> considerably if that can be dropped. Then you'd have only three ways
> of specifying a gradient - angle, point, and default, and all three
> will work intuitively.
>
> ~TJ
Ah, a closer reading of your proposal shows that what I call (2) above
is exactly what you already proposed in your <angle> paragraph. At
first read through I had thought you were suggesting that the angle
just specifies that the starting point snaps to the closest corner,
and that was its only functionality. A diagram here would clear up a
lot.
Simplifying to the three cases you give (point, angle, default) would
seem to make the most sense. The dual <bg-position> and <angle> form
could be eliminated, as it can be easily specified by an angle and a
first color stop calculated in the fashion you mentioned above.
Would (point [, point]?), angle, default work and not add to the
confusion of this discussion? From what has been said it seems like
specifying an end point makes the most sense to some.
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