- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:46:51 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, www-style@w3.org
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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