New CSS Gradients

WebKit
**Introducing CSS Gradients**
**Apr 14, 2008 by Dave Hyatt hyatt_dave** • 6/14/2022

heads up: this is a pretty old post, it may be outdated.

Tue Apr 15 2008

WebKit now supports gradients specified in CSS. There are two types of gradients: linear gradients and radial gradients.

—Introducing CSS Gradients

For us geeky web designers out there this is just plain Cool!

For those not so geeky, it means this: what could have taken over 20 lines of code can now be done in 1. Oh and when you're browsing, you won't have to download all kinds of drop shadow images – which means faster loading times.