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The spec currently implies that CanvasGradient should honor the 'currentColor' value and resolve it to the canvas element's current color value at the time of assignment. If this is the case, it means that CanvasGradient objects are linked to the rendering context that created them for purposes of color resolution. This linkage should either be explicit in the spec, or removed. Personally, I don't see the use-case for supporting 'currentColor' and believe it could be removed altogether from the canvas API.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r5389. Check-in comment: Neuter 'currentColor' for addColorStop(), so that we don't have to track around which <canvas> created which CanvasGradient all the time. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5388&to=5389