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Re: [csswg-drafts] font-size-adjust: auto (#5539)

From: jfkthame via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:39:35 +0000
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One reason (I guess) for `font-size-adjust` taking a number rather than an `auto` value is that this means it will behave consistently regardless of whether the author's first-choice font (from which the number would normally be derived) is actually present or not.

With `auto`, the aspect would be computed from whatever fallback happens to get used; it would then provide consistency across additional fallbacks, but might be quite different from what the author expected based on the primary font they had named.

An `auto` value would also mean, presumably, that if the primary `font-family` is a webfont, and hasn't yet finished loading, we can expect the size of any fallbacks that are being used (e.g. for content in other scripts) to change when the font-load does complete.

(I'm not necessarily *against* an `auto` value, just trying to think through its implications. The behavior it enables would be significantly different from what an explicit `<number>` provides.)

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