And, yes, it requires using things like multiple background-images, background-size, background-position, background-clip etc.

I see no problem w/ that. Having a gradient syntax that repeats things you can already do w/ other parts of background-* seems rather redundant.

Anyway. Whatever their concerns are, hopefully they don’t change the core of the syntax. We’ve been finding the new proposal way way more useful than the old syntax.

You’re right about the WebKit syntax, it only allows a decimal or percentage value.

According to this bug report the WebKit team are looking at the new syntax but have one or two concerns.

#commentform input[type=“text”]:focus, #commentform textarea:focus {
background-color:#FAEAE6;
}

without specifying a colour, so I get almost unreadable grey text on a pinkish background with my dark system theme.

For sites I visit a great deal I override bad behaviour in stylish, but it’d be nice if you fixed it.