- From: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:29:35 +0000
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- CC: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
I agree it doesn't make sense to include this for CSS3. My point was that it's relatively easy to accommodate in the syntax when/if we decide to support it someday. I thought that was Elika's concern. Perhaps I misread. > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Kemper [mailto:brad.kemper@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 6:11 AM > To: Brian Manthos > Cc: fantasai; www-style@w3.org > Subject: Re: [css3-images] asymmetric radial gradients > > Note that I wasn't really proposing that we have that feature, just > that the behavior of "what happens when I move the center" is non- > obvious. It is something extra to learn, if I didn't know what to > expect. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Oct 30, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com> > wrote: > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd368149(VS.85).aspx > > In D2D, this is addressed with the gradientOriginOffset parameter: > > "In the brush's coordinate space, the offset of the gradient origin > relative to the gradient ellipse's center." > > > > To support it, it would be straighforward to expand the syntax from > (one proposal): > > radial-gradient(<size> [at <position>]?, <color-stop>[, <color- > stop>]+) > > > > to (another proposal): > > radial-gradient(<size> [at <position> [offset <length>{2}]? ]?, > <color-stop>[, <color-stop>]+) > > > > -Brian > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net] > >> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 11:14 PM > >> To: www-style@w3.org > >> Subject: [css3-images] asymmetric radial gradients > >> > >> I was looking through Brad's comments on the radial gradient syntax, > >> and one of the > >> things that stood out was the broken expectation that moving the > center > >> would shift > >> the center of the gradient while keeping the outer rim the same -- > an > >> effect that > >> would create an asymmetric radial gradient, like this: > >> http://www.amanith.org/images/Radgrad.png > >> > >> I'm not saying we should add this capability right now, but I'm a > >> little concerned > >> that we might be locking ourselves in here. If we were to add > >> asymmetric radial > >> gradients in the future, how would that look? How would it interact > >> with the > >> symmetric radial gradient syntax we have now? > >> > >> ~fantasai > >> > > > >
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