- From: Leif Arne Storset <lstorset@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:58:21 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Regarding the discussion of infinitely-sized gradients and image values vs. color values, Brad Kemper wrote on Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:49:05 -0800: > On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:28 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Now we come to background-repeat. You're correct that this is the >> right place to make a gradient extend out of that box, because this >> property actually transforms finite-size images *into* infinite-size >> ones. An image with background-repeat:repeat goes on forever in both >> dimensions, and no longer has edges, just like gradients. So adding >> another value to this property, 'extend', which removes the visual >> clipping from naturally-infinite images is good and proper. Just like >> a repeated background, the 'size' of the image is still the same as it >> would be without the repeating. . >> If so, then I'll change >> Images to explain this, and B&B'll need the new value added to >> background-repeat. No other changes should be necessary. > > I'm not sure if B&B needs to be changed (or held up), or if this can > just be a gradients- > dependant addendum that lives in the gradients spec. Did you conclude on this topic? I see no related spec changes in either module yet... [1,2] 1. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/#gradients- 2. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-background/#the-background-repeat -- Leif Arne Storset Core Technology Developer, Opera Software Oslo, Norway
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