- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:15:50 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Ambrose Li wrote: > > Section 7.3 of the CSS3 Text spec details a property that effectively > > controls kerning on a small subset of CJK punctuation characters: > > > > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#punctuation-trim > > > > I don't quite see the necessity of of an author level property to > > control this unless it's something that is really controlled at an > > author level stylistically. In fact, supporting this in a browser > > that uses an OpenType layout engine would effectively require > > *undoing* layout based kerning information contained in fonts, > > especially since the default is 'none'. > > > > I think it would be better omit this property and let the text layout > > engine handle this in conjuction with well-designed fonts. > > I think I agree with you in principle, but as far as I know only > Japanese fonts are "well designed" (OpenType-wise). Chinese > fonts, as far as I know (but I may be wrong) do not generally > contain any such information. So whoever proposed the property > probably had Chinese fonts in mind. Right, I seem to recall this feature being discussed in conjunction with MS Gothic which has the same issues. I guess I don't feel we should be adding new CSS properties to band-aid old fonts, that's bass ackwards. John Daggett
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