Re: [csswg-drafts] Remove font-variant @font-face descriptor

The Working Group just discussed `font-variant @font-face descriptor`.

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&lt;dael> Topic: font-variant @font-face descriptor<br>
&lt;dael> github: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2531<br>
&lt;dael> myles: Is the commentor in the room?<br>
&lt;dael> ChrisL: It's Mike Gramford (sp?) and I don't know whose impl it refers to. They did contribute some tests so there's a test and that's where it was discovered the font-varient descriptor was under impl.<br>
&lt;dael> myles: It's mostly in the issue. Similar to the @font-face descriptors there's one that lets you turn on/off features. Nothing to do with font selection. I thought webkit was only impl, but there's some other behind a flag.<br>
&lt;ChrisL> test case for font-variant descriptor https://www.w3.org/People/chris/fwf/font-variant-descriptor-01.html<br>
&lt;dael> myles: Webkit is only shipping and our impl has archetectural problems and there's bifircation of text code paths and we make that before we inspect @font-face. we need to know if there are features to turn on before we decide. If you're on the wrong path it migh or might not work.<br>
&lt;dael> myles: I'd like to remove it.<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: Does anyone claim Mike?<br>
&lt;dael> TabAtkins: I think it's a pdf renderer<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: We could defer.<br>
&lt;dael> ChrisL: I posted this on www-style.  This is one of the non-passing tests. Do we defer? Do we delete? It's holding us from rec<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: this ability seems useful.<br>
&lt;dael> ChrisL: I thought so too but myles talked about how it can conflict with cascade and if you put this in @font-face you have fixed positions<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: property overrides descriptor so no cascade problem.<br>
&lt;dael> myles: physiologically features should be applied to everything in the cascade.<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: There are fonts out there that are always small caps<br>
&lt;dael> myles: But turning it on on small case will be fine.<br>
&lt;ChrisL> s/physiologically/philosophically/<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: But there are other features where if I have this font I want historical ligatures but not on this one because it's ugly. It's  abigger issue for stylistic alternates.<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: We have a spec we want to push and a feature we don't ahve 2 impl I think we should defer and not remove until we talk.<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: Objections to defer font varient descriptor to L4?<br>
&lt;dael> resolved: defer font variant descriptor to L4<br>
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