- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:30:53 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Thursday 2008-01-24 02:07 -0500, Ambrose Li wrote: > > On 24/01/2008, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote: > > That said, what are the use cases for this? When is it useful? > > (Can it be useful in cases where the author doesn't necessarily know > > what fonts are going to be used?) > > FWIW, isn't it true that the author NEVER knows (for sure) what > fonts are going to be used? (That's why we should specify > serif / sans-serif etc as fallback, right? And even that can fail > for pathological cases.) Right... but I was trying to be a little less accusatory in case the answer is yes. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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