- From: Behnam Esfahbod ZWNJ <behnam@zwnj.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:59:46 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, WWW-Style <www-style@w3.org>
Tab, I used "magic" only as a place-holder. In my implementation I
used "-v", like "bottom-right" and "bottom-right-v". I don't like the
idea of publicizing any magical behaviour too.
-Behnam
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> I revisited Behnam's rendering and still believe it aligns with the angular specification directly. You're right thought that you have to use a different rectangle for than the original box.
> [snip example]
>
> Yeah, using a box with the reversed ratio should be the same as
> reflecting the angle over y=x or y=-x.
>
> I'm still strongly of the opinion that doing anything magical here is
> a bad idea, and if we address this, it should be done via coordinate
> spaces, as that's actually possible to explain to people ("you draw
> the gradient into a square, and then stretch the square to fill the
> canvas").
>
> ~TJ
>
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