- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:49:19 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Erik van der Poel wrote: > CSS2, section 15.3.1: > > Note that if the font 'Robson Celtic' had been installed on the > client system, this would have caused the UA to add an entry in > the font database for the installed copy as described in the > section on the font matching algorithm. The installed copy > would have been matched before the downloadable font in the > example above. > > Which part of the CSS2 spec specifies how the various @font-face rules > override each other? The penultimate paragraph of section 15.3.1 reads: # If a font descriptor is duplicated, the last occurring descriptor # wins and the rest must be ignored. > Does this mean that the document can specify its own font > descriptors for the generic font "serif", and that these descriptors > will be used rather than the UA's own descriptors? Yes, since the 'font-family' descriptor takes <generic-family> and the author's CSS sheet comes after the UA's. -- Ian Hickson "So far, people have shown a reasonable amount of sense in evaluating souls (whether they are properly priced)." -- Nick Gibbins; Author of http://totl.net/Soul/, 1999-10-05
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