- From: Thomas Jespersen <thomas@daimi.au.dk>
- Date: 08 Sep 2000 16:11:38 +0200
- To: Clover Andrew <aclover@1VALUE.com>
- Cc: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
Clover Andrew <aclover@1VALUE.com> writes: > What should happen when the name of a generic font family matches the name > of an actual font the user has installed? I've come across tediously-named I am not sure what will happen in real life situations, but here is what will happen in theory[1]: 1. The user-agent will make a database of the font-faces it can access, and that includes the 'Serif' font-face. 2. It will first try to match font-faces from the database in step one. And there it will find your 'Serif' font. 3. Before it will try the generic font-family 'Serif' it will test if some of the other properties for the element will match a font-face in the database. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#algorithm
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