- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:08:15 -0600
- To: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
- Cc: news@terrainformatica.com, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote: > I think the points made need to be: > * gradient images have no intrinsic size, > * therefore they fill the box they are being rendered into (like SVG images > with no intrinsic size) > * and therefore, when applied to backrounds, background-size etc have no > effect. We can actually be stronger about this - gradient images are infinite in size (the abstract concept of 'box' used when describing their rendering has no intrinsic size), and so background-size and background-repeat have no effect. I will make this a bit clearer in the introduction to the section. > If you refer to the CSS 2.1 spec I think you should be more specific about > which section you are referencing. Will do. ~TJ
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