[Bug 12154] b and strong are font-weight: bolder in implementations, not font-weight: bold

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12154

--- Comment #7 from Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> 2011-06-06 01:06:19 UTC ---
> My understanding is not all fonts support multiple levels of bold

And some fonts don't support bold at all.  So?

> This might not be a big issue if commonly-used fonts all support multiple
> levels of bold, and browsers are all moving to support that. 

Good questions for both.

Just as a note, some fonts also don't have any kerning information, and some
browsers don't support kerning.  Does that mean no browser should ever support
it?

> Is this the default behavior in any browser? 

It's the default behavior in at least Firefox 4 on Windows when DirectWrite is
being used.

> (Direct2D/DirectWrite are not enabled for Firefox according to about:support.)

Sounds like your driver or hardware is blacklisted, then, so you're still using
GDI font rendering.

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Received on Monday, 6 June 2011 01:06:22 UTC