Re: should we remove the kerning property in favour of font-kerning?

On May 30, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote:

> Dirk Schulze:
>> No, more like 'gradientTransform' attribute that sets the 'transform' property. So 'kerning' would be a presentation attribute for 'font-kerning'. You could set kerning by:
>> 
>> kerning="2"
>> 
>> or
>> 
>> style="font-kerning: 2px;"
>> 
>> 
>> If you specify both together, than the inline style overrides the attribute value:
>> 
>> kerning="2" style="font-kerning: 3px"
>> 
>> would be a kerning of 3px.
> 
> That's an option, though I think that if we are happy with removing 
> kerning then we should have the font-kerning presentation attribute 
> match the property name.
I just thought that we would not have to worry to much about backwards compatibility and existing content if we make 'kerning' a presentation attribute. And it shouldn't be to problematic to implement it in browsers.

Greetings,
Dirk