Re: canvas text: ctx.font='inherit'

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > Firefox uses the canvas element's computed value for 'font' for _any_
> > invalid value passed to the 'font' attribute.
> 
> Sort of.  What Firefox does is to treat the font as having the following
> declarations specified:
> 
>   font: whatever-you-passed-in;
>   line-height: normal;
> 
> and then act as if that rule were applied to a node that is the child of the
> <canvas> element (unless the canvas element is not in the document tree, in
> which case the style is treated as inheriting from "font: 10px sans-serif".
>
> > I've clarified that 'initial' and 'inherit' must be ignored. I haven't
> > changed the spec to match either WebKit or Gecko here.
> 
> So basically the behavior should be as Firefox now except:
> 
> 1)  Treat inherit and initial as CSS syntax errors.
> 2)  Always use "font: 10px sans serif" as the parent's font, not
>     just when the <canvase> is outside of a DOM tree.
> 
> Right?

Right.

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