Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-inline] spec should define behavior when 'initial-letter' and 'float' both set on same element/pseudo-element from Florian Rivoal via GitHub on 2018-05-25 (public-css-archive@w3.org from May 2018)

From: Florian Rivoal via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 03:58:17 +0000
To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Message-ID: <issue_comment.created-391934307-1527220696-sysbot+gh@w3.org>

I agree with your conclusion that it is what happens given the current spec, but it seems to me that the opposite behavior might be helpful to let authors provide simple fallbacks without having to use `@supports`. Example:
```css
p::first-letter {
  initial-letter: 3;
  float: left;
  line-height: 1;
  font-size: 3em;
}
```
Having this do a float-based drop cap in legacy browsers, and an initial-letter based drop cap in newer ones would sound great.

Also, it is what happens in Safari.

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