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

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote:
> However, in WebKit, gradient rendering is supplied by the underlying
> graphics framework (CoreGraphics), and we don’t have the knobs to tune to
> control how gradient rendering behaves. My preference would be that gradient
> rendering just looks good everywhere.

Agreed.

> If we did have a “high quality” option that is more expensive (perhaps it
> does dithering), then I can see a “smooth” value being useful, but I think
> the spec is going to have to allow UAs to continue to do what they do now.

I'm also fine with image-rendering being used in this way.  It's
currently specified to only apply to *scaling* of images, but it's a
minor wording tweak to also allow it to apply to *generated* images.

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 17 February 2016 17:59:51 UTC