[css-images-4] Blink Intent to Implement conic-gradient()

[LeaVerou]

Blink’s intent to implement, announced today: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/-z66SwKdklc/5t-NBchECQAJ
Spec: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-images-4/#conic-gradients

As @fantasai pointed out in Blink’s intent to implement, if Blink is implementing, this needs wider CSSWG review asap. I can introduce the topic in next week’s call.

[atanassov]

[csswg] Resolved to:

1. Add @LeaVerou as an editor
2. Publish a new WD
3. Change/Ensure the short name to css-images-4

[chharvey]

I'm late to the game, but I was wondering if there had been any discussion on naming the function angular-gradient() instead of conic-gradient()?

Seems to me that angular is a more "programmy/mathy" term, and goes well with the other polar parameter, radial. (A polar coordinate is defined by a radius and an angle, so these two terms complement each other.)

The only explanation for why conic was chosen that I've come across was that,

… it [could] produce a pattern that looks like a cone observed from above.

which, as illustrated in the spec, is not always the case.

[tabatkins]

That's an explanation of the name, but the reason we went with the name is that it's what it's commonly called in several image editors.

[svgeesus]

See for example the conical gradient in Corel Draw or Gimp

Aso, changing the name once there is implementer momentum is in general an anti-pattern.

[ewilligers]

Closing, as we RESOLVED: Clear conic-gradient() for shipping