Context
The recent SVG gradient work now renders varying stop opacity for gradient fills by building a grayscale soft mask. Gradient strokes still fall back to constant stroke opacity when stop alpha varies, so stroke:url(#...) plus stop-opacity is not yet faithful.
Current behavior
- gradient fills: varying stop alpha supported
- gradient strokes: varying stop alpha collapses to a single stroke alpha and logs a warning
Why this matters
This is now the most obvious remaining gap inside the gradient/opacity work itself. It is narrower than the old umbrella opacity issue and deserves its own follow-up.
Scope
- Add a stroke-aware soft-mask path for SVG gradient strokes, or another vector-first equivalent
- Preserve current stroke width, cap, join, dash, and transform behavior
- Keep fallback behavior deterministic when a stroke case is still not representable
Acceptance
stroke:url(#g) with varying stop-opacity renders with visibly changing alpha along the stroked geometry- covered for common shape/path cases
- add focused regression tests for stroke gradients with stop alpha
Context
The recent SVG gradient work now renders varying stop opacity for gradient fills by building a grayscale soft mask. Gradient strokes still fall back to constant stroke opacity when stop alpha varies, so
stroke:url(#...)plusstop-opacityis not yet faithful.Current behavior
Why this matters
This is now the most obvious remaining gap inside the gradient/opacity work itself. It is narrower than the old umbrella opacity issue and deserves its own follow-up.
Scope
Acceptance
stroke:url(#g)with varyingstop-opacityrenders with visibly changing alpha along the stroked geometry