- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:01:07 -0700 (PDT)
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>, public-css-testsuite@w3.org
fantasai wrote: > John Daggett can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the > small-caps test submitted by Mozilla > http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/mozilla/incoming/reftests/text-transform/ > http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/reftests/text-transform/ > is invalid. It assumes that a small-caps lower-case "a" has > the same rendering as a capital "A" at 80% of the font size. > > This assertion is both unsupported by the specification (nowhere > does it require 80% scaling) and, if I understand correctly, > a completely wrong test for fonts that have true small caps. Yeah, requiring 80% is not valid. One thing to note is that it's important to select a lowercase letter whose uppercase form is different (e.g. 'a', 'e', etc.). Some of the MS tests use 'x' which is a poor choice. John
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