[svgwg] Issue: lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs" is a BAD idea marked as DoC_rejected from Nikos Andronikos via GitHub on 2016-08-08 (public-svg-issues@w3.org from August 2016)

From: Nikos Andronikos via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:01:24 +0000
To: public-svg-issues@w3.org
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nikosandronikos has just labeled an issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/svgwg as "DoC_rejected":

== lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs" is a BAD idea ==
Typographically, it's never alright to geometrically stretch of 
compress glyphs.  No browser (that I know of) does synthetic stretch, 
for the same reason.  Having it in SVG spec is an invitation for very 
bad typography.

See https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/152

Received on Monday, 8 August 2016 11:01:35 UTC