- From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:15:16 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 2010/01/06 16:54 (GMT-0500) Ambrose LI composed: > 2010/1/6 Felix Miata wrote: >> There should have been and be some mechanism that prevents attempts to render >> fonts in sizes that can't get the job done. That might mean either resorting >> to bitmaps or some nearest neighbor type mechanism to translate an em or % >> request for a (CJK) font into a size that can work for the viewer. >> That some CJK fonts only work right at certain sizes not an excuse to use px >> for sizing before such time as all users can set the size of a px to meet >> their legibility and usability requirements. > You are missing the point. The fact that CJK fonts *used to* only work > at certain sizes is *precisely* because they were bitmaps. Therefore > if you are proposing using bitmaps to fudge things, then you *must* > allow px sizes. I used the word "bitmap" only as example of doing whatever is necessary, and was in no way suggesting doing anything that necessitates allowing authors to size in px. -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
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