Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts] Default angle for font-style:oblique should conform to host platform

>  Checking the italicAngle field in a sampling of actual italic/oblique fonts shows values that cluster around 11°-12°, with occasional outliers as small as 6° or as large as 16.3°.

Interesting data, which itself indicates that 20deg is too large.

> Current Firefox behavior -- which was designed to harmonize with host platform behavior -- uses an angle between 11.3deg and 16.7deg

Could you clarify which angle is used on which platform?

In general I dislike platform-dependent or UA-dependent behaviour, but in this case there is no particular downside to interop (stylesheet authors can always select the value they want, this handling of unspecified value is just for backwards compat). It does makes default-angle testing a bit harder. But I would not oppose this if that is what we decide.

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Received on Wednesday, 14 February 2018 04:19:22 UTC