Re: [css3-fonts] revisions to editor's draft from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2012-11-13 (www-style@w3.org from November 2012)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:43:18 -0800
To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDAay0z0OLmRDxDjY-TGH+F664+wBL57J2HSkt175wJWgw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:53 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Also included is a revision of the CSSFontFaceRule.  This replaces the
> original CSS2 OM definition with a simple, flat structure that
> includes all the relavant descriptors instead of using a
> CSSStyleDeclaration member.  The old interface leads to problems where
> implementations are forced to include descriptors from @font-face
> rules into style declarations, which is awkward and causes weird
> oddities (e.g. you can set unicodeRange on a div?!?).  There are
> implementations that already implement the old interface but I don't
> think there's enough use to justify keeping the old interface
> around.

Yay!  I approve.

~TJ

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