Re: [css-images][svg2] gradient rendering and the image-rendering property

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Amelia Bellamy-Royds
<amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com> wrote:
> But in practice, Chromium at least is making visible
> performance-over-quality tradeoffs, displaying banding in smooth gradients
> and jagged pixelation on sharp transitions (in larger blocks than the actual
> screen resolution).  Banding can also appear in subtle gradients in any
> rendering tool that doesn't do explicit dithering, which can be an issue
> with high-quality printing and SVG.

You appear to be assuming that Blink has a choice in how to render
gradients, and they're purposefully choosing the option that is
fast-but-ugly.  I don't know our details, but I suspect we're actually
in the same boat as Safari, and our underlying graphics library does
not offer any choices in gradient rendering - it just does so, in some
particular way.  As Rik says, we appear to have fixed that to be
prettier.

This is why we're pushing back against adding a toggle.  There doesn't
appear to *be* an underlying toggle in implementations, so there's
nothing that a CSS-level toggle could *do*.  If gradients are ugly, we
can just fix them.  After we've fixed as best as we can, we can
examine whether a toggle is still desirable.

~TJ