- From: Chris Lilley via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:09:56 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
I agree that this name has, in practice, caused confusion. In a world where fake bold and fake italic (obliquing) are common, people often assume that font-stretch geometrically stretches or shrinks the glyph outlines. Also, to date there were not so many WebFonts deployed with condensed or expanded versions, so this property and associated descriptor were not much used. I agree that now is the right time to deploy an alias, before variable fonts make condensed and expanded forms far more common. `font-width` seems much better. In general, aligning closely with OpenType is better. Also, mea culpa. I came up with the name `font-stretch`, didn't much like it, asked for better names and none were suggested so we stuck with it. -- GitHub Notification of comment by svgeesus Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/551#issuecomment-250562333 using your GitHub account
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