Theme Roller and no gradient
Themeroller generates a gradient for every bar and body whether you want one or not. You can set the start/end to the same, but that doesn't seem like a very good solution. You get a bloated CSS file with unnecessary
background-image: lines, and it might result in unnecessary work when rendering the page.
Does anyone know what common browsers do with this? Are they smart enough to just ignore this, or will they actually create a background image with a solid color? This seems awfully wasteful if this is the case.
One can manually edit the theme file to remove these, or use a simple script to remove them (if you want to remove ALL of them - would take a somewhat more complicated script to remove only certain ones). But if you then import the theme back into ThemeRoller, it will again generate the gradients, but this time with undefined as the start and stop values.
I suppose it's not so bad to manually edit, since I wind-up having to do this anyway, because ThemeRoller usually litters the CSS with NaNs...
God forbid anybody should want to omit gradients, and offend the refined tastes of Filament Group.
I don't know what world they work in, but I am doing MOBILE development, and I'm afraid that gradients are still a luxury that most HTML-based apps and webapps cannot afford.
I have submitted an Issue on this (and NaN) on Github, but I don't have much hope. Previous Issues about the NaN were just closed without comment, and Issues suggesting new features just go for months without comment.
Is there any hope for Themeroller to become a useful tool in production for real mobile sites?