- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 06:23:46 -0700 (PDT)
- To: liam@w3.org
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, www-font@w3.org
Liam Quin wrote: > > And I'm not sure how small caps relates since support for small > > caps is defined differently. > > I don't see a good justification for doing small caps differently in > this regard, though. It's again something where you want the native > small caps where available. In general, there's no fallback for font variant features. In the subscript/superscript case fallback is needed because subscripts and superscripts are semantic. In the small caps case, this is existing behavior so we're simply keeping it compatible. Small caps are generally implemented for all lowercase characters while subscript/superscript glyphs are only supported for a subset of possible characters. I don't think theoretical consistency justifies the cost of requiring per-glyph fallback in the small caps case. Regards, John
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