The design of the site is quite good, but the mouse events on the canvas to control the shape of the gradient don't seem to work at all under Opera (it's fine under Chrome).
As a suggestion, gradients with more than 2 colors (a Photoshop style adding intermediate colors on a line or something similar) would be a useful feature to add.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll fix it.
The color stop feature is actually pretty easy to add, it's only a question of where to put the color selector now...
It uses the canvas gradient to create it, and then atop of that it dithers the colors using pixel manipulation. AFAIK there are no dithering techniques in the gradient creation itself, only the grain I add manually after creating the gradient.
Haha! This is the sort of stuff we should see more often on HN. I'd just like to say that I love the tagline -- "because CSS gradients are just not there yet". Just imagine the poor sods who wrote the gradient renderer in the popular browsers. To me, the gradients generated by the site do look really good, and if these are beyond CSS3, then CSS3 should be expanded.
Cool, but why is there no setting to change the length/radius of the gradient? The "radius" slider only changes the contrast (but curiously only in radial mode), not the size.
Bug report: The color up/down thingies become stuck so that any mouse movement will change the value. (Chrome 15 on Lion.)
Ron. Pretty awesome. Just playing with it on Chrome and am pleased with the effects. Adding more than one gradient would be a useful feature as others have noted. Keep up the good work
As a suggestion, gradients with more than 2 colors (a Photoshop style adding intermediate colors on a line or something similar) would be a useful feature to add.