My CSS mountain scene broke after a browser update

I spent 3 days building a detailed mountain landscape using only box-shadows and gradients on a single div. It looked perfect in Firefox but when Chrome updated last Tuesday, the entire top ridge just vanished. Turns out Chrome changed how they handle layered gradients and my whole setup relied on an old workaround. I had to rebuild it from scratch using clip-path instead. Has anyone else had browser updates completely kill their CSS art?

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thompson.xena10d ago

Blame the gradient compositing changes they snuck into the rendering engine.

vera_roberts8d ago

Ngl, did they actually document that change in the release notes or was it buried in the patch notes like usual? I went back through the last two updates and couldn't find a single mention of gradient compositing anywhere. Seems like a shady move if they're tweaking core rendering stuff without telling anyone.