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Re:How to reduce the file size of large background images by... by arielserafini on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @05:40PM (#18916309)
you could also achieve the same (or very close) result with CSS gradients alone.
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Re:How to reduce the file size of large background images by... by labwire on Saturday January 19, 2019 @02:39PM (#18948762)
Layering CSS gradients doesn’t work, unfortunately: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14926189/creating-a-grad...
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Re:How to reduce the file size of large background images by... by deepsun on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:02PM (#18916529)
Or SVG gradients I believe.
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Re:How to reduce the file size of large background images by... by labwire on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @09:07PM (#18917693)
To achieve the same effect, you would need a “gradient mesh” which is not supported by the current version of SVG.

Mesh gradients were slotted for SVG 2.0 but the feature has since been removed from the roadmap.

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/gradient-meshes-and...

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