- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:45:41 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:19 AM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: >> There may have been other things said here that weren't captured in >> the IRC log but I'd like to point out that there are two basic issues >> with font weights: >> >> (1) Given a specific value of font-weight, which face within a set >> of faces for a given family should be selected? >> >> (2) Given a set of font faces, how to assign them onto the CSS 100 .. 900 scale? > > Yeah, it may not have been clear, but what is intended is that the > fourth bullet in the 2.1 spec (detailing how to fill in holes in the > 100-900 range) be made normative. The previous bullets (talking > about how to assign font weights to CSS weights) is to be left in > its current state of implementation-defined-ness. Right, but the suggested edits do not completely form a normative explanation for (1), the precise rules for weights 400 and 500 are ambiguous in the current wording.
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