They should have said 'would be actually useful if' rather than 'should be.' From a design perspective, the utility of gradients that come to a muddy gray in th

They should have said 'would be actually useful if' rather than 'should be.' From a design perspective, the utility of gradients that come to a muddy gray in the middle is nonexistent. Framing it as a way to make them more useful to people who need them rather than 'correct' would have been more productive, but way less likely to hit the top stories on HN. I'd say the transparency assertions are more dubious. There's a zillion ways to superimpose a color on an image and the one they suggest isn't even more consistently useful than the others, let alone 'correct.'