- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 05:37:38 +0200
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- CC: SVG public list <www-svg@w3.org>
On Sunday, May 27, 2012, 10:22:50 AM, Cameron wrote: CM> SVG 1.1 has the kerning property, which lets you override the kerning CM> information from the font to use a specific value. You can use CM> "kerning: 0" to disable kerning, for example. css3-fonts defines the CM> font-kerning property, which has values "none" to disable kerning, CM> "normal" to apply it, and "auto" to give the UA some leeway in CM> determining whether it should apply. CM> The kerning property is implemented by WebKit, but not Gecko or Opera. CM> (Sorry Jen for not testing IE in this and recent mails; opening up my VM CM> is a bit of a drag.) CM> Can we drop kerning, and go ahead with font-kerning? The combination of CM> font-kerning and letter-spacing can achieve everything that the kerning CM> property can. I agree that we should drop the kerning property (which was a good idea in 1998 but does not make sense now CSS3 Fonts has a suitable property) in favour of font-kerning. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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