- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:44:33 -0700
- To: Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Lea Verou <lea@w3.org> wrote: > A few days ago, I gave a talk at SmashingConf, in which I included some > small live demos with gradients. During one of them, I wrote something like: > > background: linear-gradient(1px black, 1px transparent); > > Neither I nor anyone in the 300 authors in the audience could see what was > wrong with it, until I gave up and decided to move on to the next demo. > Of course, I later realized what the problem was. The color stop position > was before the color. But why is that disallowed? There doesn’t seem to be > any reason to require it and traditionally in CSS order doesn’t matter when > disambiguation is possible regardless of it. Probably because I accidentally made it order-dependent early on, and never thought to change it. I don't see any particular reason to keep it order-dependent - as you say, CSS traditionally lets us use any order as long as it's unambiguous. I'll go ahead and change it in the Images 4 ED. > Also: Great idea to allow 2 positions. Hadn’t noticed it before. This was > sorely needed for so many use cases! I wouldn't call it "sorely needed" (it doesn't add any new abilities), but it is indeed very convenient for doing stripes, which is a common use-case. ~TJ
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