- From: Arron Eicholz <Arron.Eicholz@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:08:48 -0800
- To: "public-css-testsuite@w3.org" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS2.1/current/html4/t1604-c542-letter-sp-01-b-a.htm
According to comment in the source, this testcase expects letter-spacing to be divided and split evenly on each side of a character.
Taking the rules in the testcase:
<style type="text/css">
div { font: 24px/1 Ahem; width: 15em; background: yellow; color: aqua; margin: 0 0 0 2em; }
.eight {letter-spacing: 48px;}
.nine {letter-spacing: normal;}
</style>
...we apply them to the following markup:
<div class="eight"> ab <span class="nine">cd ef</span> </div>
The testcase expects 96px of space between the b and c characters. Major browsers currently render 120px worth of space by:
- Adding 48px of letter-spacing after the b
- Using 24px for the space
- Adding 48px of letter-spacing after the space
For a total of 120px.
But if one were to "distribute letter spacing evenly on both sides of each letter" per the comment in the testcase then the user agent would:
- Add 24px of letter-spacing after b
- Add 24px of letter-spacing before the space
- Use 24px for the space
- Add 24px of letter-spacing after the space.
This would result in a 96px space.
The CSS2.1 specification does not currently define letter-spacing distribution.
This test case is currently invalid and needs to be removed.
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Thanks,
Arron Eicholz
Received on Saturday, 28 February 2009 02:09:29 UTC