Re: Web Fonts

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Chris Lilley wrote:
>> 
>> Wouldn't it be sufficient to simply support the addition of URIs to 
>> font-family?
> 
> That would be a highly backwards-incompatible change!

Actually, it would be completely backwards compatible, because CSS has 
very specific forwards-compatibility rules for exactly this situation. 
It's the same as the way we extended <color> in CSS2.1 and CSS3, it 
doesn't break all the previous properties in CSS1.

For example, you could do:

   p { font-family: My Font, Other Font, serif;
       font-family: My Font, url(myfont.zip), Other Font, serif; }

...and it would work in down-level UAs and new UAs just as you would want.

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