RE: Talk on radial gradients

Tab Atkins Jr.:
| http://www.xanthir.com/test-gradient.php?shape=skewellipse&width=2
| 00&height=200&start=ffff00&end=0000ff
| http://www.xanthir.com/test-gradient.php?shape=quarter-circle&widt
h=200&height=200&start=ffff00&end=0000ff

#1: yellow spotlight shining into a blue fog
#2: solar corona (expected of a simple radial gradient) 

| I'm trying to decide if being able to specify the starting-position is
| useful or not.

Start offset from ellipse position surely useful for someone. Plus something like 'reverse', like looking at the backside of the gradient? And let's not neglect an optional eccentricity variable for each color stop. E.g.:
http://hpaa.com/csstest/radgrads.htm

(BTW, I found no compelling argument for tilted elliptical gradients.)

~TJ