Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts] Don't require browsers to always match every generic font family to a concrete font family (#4442)

I assume that, in those questions, "fallback" means "the font that is used when the browser falls off the end of the `font-family` list".

In that case, I don't see any benefit to specifying how this font is picked. If the author wants the browser to pick a particular font, they should just name the font in the `font-family` list.

I do see benefit in leaving it unspecified because:

- We use platform (Core Text) APIs to do it, and these APIs were not created with the web, or any web concepts, in mind
- Browsers should be free to gather insight from any/all signals that the author has already provided in order to make the best pick possible.

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Received on Tuesday, 29 October 2019 18:55:49 UTC