[whatwg] gradient edge case

Rik Cabanier cabanier at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 21:52:59 PST 2012


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Rik Cabanier wrote:
> >
> > yes, however it will be slower since the pattern has to be rendered two
> or
> > four times.
> > If you can reflect in x and y, you can calculate the pattern cell once
> and
> > then have your hardware do the tiling.
>
> If it's something that happens a lot, then certainly it makes sense to add
> it. But I've heard very few requests for this.


yeah, we (= Adobe) never implemented it natively in our graphics libraries
but other frameworks (such as xps from Microsoft) did.


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