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

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Exactly, which is why I said "a property value tweaking the behavior
of certain values of another property".  Having a property tweak
particular types of values in another property is pretty bad.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:59:30 UTC