[whatwg] gradient edge case

[Rik Cabanier]

Since Canvas has support for pattern, you could fairly easy emulate this
behavior.
I think it would be handy if you could add the 'reflect' idiom to patterns.

Rik

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:07 PM, David Dailey <ddailey at zoominternet.net>wrote:

> While on the topic, it seems like reflected linear gradients would be quite
> handy -- insert an "edge" into the stop-sequence and then reflect or repeat
> from there.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org
> [mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Rik Cabanier
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 9:59 PM
> To: whatwg; public-canvas-api at w3.org
> Subject: [whatwg] gradient edge case
>
> All,
>
> Currently the canvas spec specifies the following:
>
> If x0 = x1 and y0 = y1, then the linear gradient must paint nothing.
>
> and
>
> If x0 = x1 and y0 = y1 and r0 = r1, then the radial gradient must paint
> nothing
>
> Why is this? It seems that the gradient should just be a line or circle
> that
> has the first colorstop's on the left/inside and the last colorstop's color
> on the right/outside.
>
> Rik
>
>
>
>