Re: [css3-images] CSS Gradient Notation

On 21/01/2012 12:19 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:10 PM, fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>  wrote:
>> On 01/18/2012 07:02 PM, Brian Manthos wrote:
>>>
>>> Linear gradient with keywords:  This was discussed exhaustively and
>>> ended up in a WG resolution.  That said...
>>
>> I thought it was resolved, but I tried to look up the resolution for
>> Lea yesterday, and couldn't find it. We discussed it at the Seattle
>> F2F, but the only conclusion there was to defer keywords to Level 4.
>>   http://www.w3.org/mid/4E38E1B9.20003@inkedblade.net
>>
>> If you can find it, send me a pointer. Otherwise the issue is, apparently,
>> still unresolved.
>
> 10Aug2011 telcon:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Aug/0271.html
>
> ~TJ


Please note the part I initially quote [2]. This seems rather a short 
discussion. Later in this thread [3] I mentioned the following.

Another reason that I see _direction to_ notation as wrong is that the
syntax can not be extended in future and have it make sense. If it was
possible to have the beginning of the gradient from 'top' and the end of 
the gradient to 'bottom right',

   -----T-----
   |     \   |
   |      \  |
   |       \ |
   |        \|
   ---------BR


then having the 'to bottom' instead of 'top' complicate things. You
could write this,

      _top to bottom right_


where the reverse does not make sense.

     _to bottom from top left_


and indicates a different vector.


   TL---------
   |\        |
   | \       |
   |  \      |
   |   \     |
   -----B-----


2. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Aug/0271.html
3. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Aug/0412.html


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Alan Gresley
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