Cairo and the GL renderer have a different idea of how to handle
transitioning of colors outside the defined range.
Consider these stops:
black 50%, white 50%
What color is at 0%?
Cairo would transition between the last and first stop, ie it'd do a
white-to-black transition and end up at rgb(0.5,0.5,0.5) at 0%.
GL would behave as it would for non-repeating gradients and use black
for the range [0%..50%] and white for [50%..100%].
The web would rescale the range so the first stop would be at 0% and
the last stop would be at 100%, so this gradient would be illegal.
Considering that it's possible for code to transition between the
different behaviors by adding explicit stops at 0%/100%, I could choose
any method.
So I chose the simplest one, which is what the GL renderer does and
which treats repeating and non-repeating gradients the same.
Tests attached.
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