- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 23:57:38 +0200
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- CC: public-svg-wg@w3.org
On Monday, May 11, 2009, 8:12:54 AM, Cameron wrote: CM> The font-size="" attribute is on the <font-face> element in SVG 1.1, but CM> not in SVG Tiny 1.2. Was this a deliberate omission? (A number of CM> other descriptor attributes aren’t in 1.2T, but these are all because CM> 1.2T can’t do vertical text.) I recall that it was. Originally this had two uses: one for raster fonts (which come at a particular pixel size) and one for optically scaled fonts (whetre different geometry is used at different rendering sizes). Neither are in widespread use currently. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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