1068012 - linear-gradient with transparent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 591600

(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

Description

[Mike Lambert]

Attachment: firefox-linear-gradient-transparent-bug.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

See http://codepen.io/lambert-velir/pen/daEex


Actual results:

There is grey mixed in with the linear gradient from a color to transparent


Expected results:

The color should gradient to transparent smoothly

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You can do rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) to get a transparent white instead of the default transparent black...

Unfortunately, the spec flip-flopped on this issue several times, so what we have implemented right now matches what the spec said when we implemented gradients but not what it says now.