Re: [css3-images] aliasing and repeating-linear-gradient

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Looking at the first example...
>
> background: -ms-repeating-linear-gradient(left, red 0%, red 0.1%, lime 0.1%,
> lime 0.2%, blue 0.2%, blue 0.3%);
>
> When the IE PPB2 window is resized to  ~1300 pixels, the rendering is
> approximately this pattern repeated:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011Oct/att-0008/AlanRepeatingPattern1.png
>
> While there is a cyclic bright/dark effect occurring, I don’t think this is
> a non-conformant relative to the current WD.

Correct, this is a conformant rendering.  The UA has some leniency on
when it "knows that the physical resolution of the output device is
insufficient to faithfully render the gradient" and must switch to
rendering the average color.

~TJ