It should work. I'll try an example tonight and send it your way.

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On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Mike Xu <[email protected]> wrote:

Your pngs should transparent backgrounds behind the icons.  The gradient
will not appear in areas that are transparent.


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Alex Zylka <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anyone have an idea on how to select one area of an image to add that
> gradient to? I'm stuck with something like this:
> http://www.zylka.us/iscroll/images/uh-oh.jpg
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jordan Dobson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Nice Mike! Good call on the webkit-mask-size yeah that's a much better
>> approach and only one asset is needed.
>>
>> Thanks for that gradient!
>>
>> You could probably recreate the shadow if you used ::before and :after
>> pseudo elements to create the selected state and the shadow on separate
>> layers.. then position with z-index.
>>
>> I think that could work!!!
>>
>> - Jordan
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Mike Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I would also use a solid toolbar color and a transparent white gradient
>>> overlay.  This allows you to recolorize the bars with a single color (for
>>> example going from the default light blue to the dark brown toolbar would
>>> only be a single css property instead of regenerating an entire gradient.)
>>>
>>> webkit-mask-image is definately the way to go for the icons.  The main
>>> issue is that you can't recreate the one pixel drop shadow on the icon
>>> pictures shapes that are in native apps.  I would use high resolution masks
>>> and then scale them with -webkit-mask-size in ems instead of px.  This makes
>>> it so you have a crisp image on iphone 3, 4, and android that rescales.
>>>
>>> Here's the gradient to use on the image masks:
>>>
>>> background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 38% 0%, 60% 70%, from(#DDE9F0),
>>> color-stop(0.6, #79B2EC), color-stop(0.7, #2E91E5), to(#3FC5F8));
>>>
>>>  On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Jordan Dobson 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Alex - I recommend you use webkit-mask-image
>>>>
>>>> http://cl.ly/1ykN
>>>>
>>>> Use that mask to define the the area of where the gradient should show
>>>> through and then you can change the gradient that shows through depending 
>>>> on
>>>> what class is applied.
>>>>
>>>> That's how I'd approach it.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if you have any questions about this approach because I've
>>>> thought about it quite a bit but haven't time to implement it. I'd love to
>>>> help. :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Alex Zylka <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So as you can probably tell from my title, I have resurrected the
>>>>> "fabled" iScroll/ iUI bottom bar. All I need right now are opinions.
>>>>> To make the icons look real, do I make the transparent png's and use
>>>>> CSS gradients to fill them in with the selected gradient, or grayed
>>>>> out one? Or do I stick with boring static images? You tell me!
>>>>>
>>>>> My testing ground for iUI(Scroll) is here:
>>>>> http://www.zylka.us/iscroll/.
>>>>> Please tell me what you think (and maybe contribute the CSS gradient
>>>>> codes - for selected icon and/or grayed out icon - so I don't go crazy
>>>>> trying to match the CSS gradient to the icon gradient!)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alex Zylka
>>>>> http://www.zylka.us/
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