??? what is this? use an image?

svg as part of css is supported by all browsers (except IE 8 and below and android 2.3 and below), gives a perfect gradient, is small, scalable and completely according to w3c... ;-)

I ment the base64 ;) can' you include the file instead?

@nickvergessen: ok, one of the svg as an aexample added to this thread. You can see what is in each and every file if you base64_decode the string in the css...

But i am a bit confused as to why you should want an image file of the background if the entire point was to get rid of all the fixed images...

check newly created ticket: http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-12155

well using a svg is not what was the plan.
We don't do that for the big buttons aswell.

base64 image