Re: Gradients and background-repeat (Was: Re: Automatic spec annotations)

On May 12, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wish you would stop calling it names as a means to try to defeat it. It is no more magic than looking at the information inside a JPG in order to determine what 'background-size:auto' means, or to find an intrinsic aspect ratio which then sets a width or height of an image. In this case, we'd be looking inside a CSS-generated image to determine what the background canvas rotation should be, and then limiting the rotation inside the image to zero, in a happily cooperative fashion.
> 
> I use the term magic because that's what it is - it's a property value
> tweaking the behavior of certain values of another property.  

linear-gradient is not a property. It is a function to create an image, and that image has the potential to have flexible behavior in this situation. I fail to see that as a bad thing.

Received on Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:07:55 UTC