- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:09:22 -0700
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Cc: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:02 AM, John Daggett<jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: > Jonathan Kew wrote: > >> Some time ago, I experimented with a patch that added automatic >> 'size' support to Firefox; this is not currently part of the actual >> codebase, as integrating it across all platforms is dependent on >> some other underlying work on font management, but I hope to revisit >> it eventually. (See >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469656.) >> >> No new syntax or properties were involved in this, it simply >> selected the appropriate face for the size being used. I suppose we >> might want the option of overriding this with a CSS property, but >> that shouldn't be necessary for normal use. > > The support of the 'size' feature I think still requires some > consideration of backwards compatibility, since older browsers won't > have support for this. Using the 'size' feature alters the definition > of a font family, it is very much distinct from the current definition > in all implementations. Here of course you mean CSS/browser implementations, which have a different and more restrictive notion of "font family" than the typographic one, or the one envisioned in the OpenType spec. > The proper place for that discussion is probably www-style, since the > spec affected by this is the CSS3 Fonts spec. Agreed. Cheers, T
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