- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:48:59 -0700
- To: Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>
- CC: Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Jonathan Kew wrote: > One of the reasons to propose specific properties (font-variant-* or > whatever) for "well-known" features is that it allows the CSS to be less > closely tied to the underlying font technology. It also means that layout options that invoke more than one feature in a given font technology can be efficiently addressed in mark-up. An example would be the OTL GPOS optical bounds implementation, which involves separate features for left and right margins but which would sensibly be addressed by a single layout tag in a mark-up language. John Hudson
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