- From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 10:20:30 +0100
I wish to submit two proposals for changes to the generic font families built into CSS. If someone could please forward these to whomever is currently working on the css3-fonts module, I would be much obliged. 1) That "monospace" and it's new inverse "proportional" be independent of the other generic families, and that both a generic and monospace/proportional (in either order) be specifiable together. This should be followed by a lone CSS2 generic for backwards compatibility. If not present, "proportional" should be assumed. Examples: Old:- font-family: "Courier", "Courier New", monospace; New:- font-family: "Courier", "Courier New", serif monospace, monospace; Old:- font-family: "Monaco", monospace; New:- font-family: "Monaco", sans-serif monospace, monospace; Old:- font-family: "Hoefler Text", "Georgia", serif; New:- font-family: "Hoefler Text", "Georgia", proportional serif, serif; 2) The addition of two new generic family classes for the Latin script, namely: blackletter (including fraktur, gotisch, schwabacher, rotunda, old english, &c.) uncial (including insular, irish, &c.) Blackletter is by far the most important of these, as it is quite common (much more so than 'fantasy') yet there are few universal blackletter fonts on all systems. Whilst it is often seen that a web designer will append "Arial" before the generic family?making the generics almost useless in that regard?due to the lack of universal fonts for either of these generics a user agent would likely find it falls back to them much more often than for 'serif' and 'sans-serif'. - Nicholas Shanks. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20060702/078e8f84/attachment.bin>
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