1749560 - Drop support for linear gradients until dithering is supported

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics: WebRender, enhancement)

Description

[mark.j.fisher]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/95.0

Steps to reproduce:

This 11 year old bug bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627771) makes gradients essentially unusable in Firefox due to the lack of dithering.

I propose it would preferable to drop support for gradients until such time as dithering can be added, like in all the other browsers. This would allow authors to use a media query with a fallback that doesn't look horrendously nasty.

Comment 1

[mark.j.fisher]

Sorry, I mean a feature query, obviously.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Audio/Video: Playback' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Linear gradients are used on a lot of websites, completely disabling them would break many pages