- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:32:10 -0800
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On 12/08/2010 12:27 PM, "Gérard Talbot" wrote: > Hello, > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-CSS2-20101207/fonts.html#font-family-prop > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090908/fonts.html#font-family-prop > > http://www.w3.org/Style/css2-updates/WD-CSS2-20101207-20090908-diff/fonts.html#font-family-prop > > The sentence which used to say > " > If quoting is omitted, any white space characters before and after the > font name are ignored and any sequence of white space characters inside > the font name is converted to a single space. > " > > has been removed in latest WD. Why? > > I sincerly believe it should remain, be kept as it was. > > Right now, the latest WD emphasizes quoting font-family names with special > characters (punctuation, white spaces) and/or with reserved words. But it > does not state (as it previous version) how to deal, how to parse font > name with sequences of white spaces before and/or inside and/or after font > family names. > > There are testcases [see 1] in current version of CSS 2.1 test suite which > were putting to test (mettre à l'épreuve) the beforementioned quote. The testcase are still valid -- the sentence you quote has been replaced by # If a sequence of identifiers is given as a font family name, the computed # value is the name converted to a string by joining all the identifiers in # the sequence by single spaces. ~fantasai
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