Re: [css3-images] Changing the angles in gradients

On 5/18/2011 21:24 PM, Brad Kemper wrote:
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> On May 18, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Mihai Potra<mike@mpotra.com>  wrote:
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>> I think preference was more for CW instead of CCW, which I agree with, but not necessarily for the direction. Wouldn't it be best to now focus on direction, and have another round on this as well? B vs C
> If the change is to make the use of angles in linear-gradient more obviously fitting to authors expectations, then you shouldn't even need to ask. But if you have to learn, one time, how to map an angle to a linear direction, then learning whether to do C or D is no better than learning to do A.
Sorry, what I meant was having a round on determining the best initial 
direction, 0deg=North or 0deg=East.
I believe most of the responders in favor of a change, on css3.info (and 
not only), were fine with both B and C, which means the most important 
thing to them was CW.
Others might have chosen C only because it matches the practice of using 
gradients to websites, through raster, in a top-to-bottom fashion.

I was hoping that a more in-depth discussion on this subtopic, might 
reveal the wiser choice of the two, which would satisfy the majority, 
including the ones that see this from a math point of view.
Either way, changing it to something that works as CW thinking is 
obviously heavily requested and much logical to authors, than A.

Received on Wednesday, 18 May 2011 19:26:51 UTC