- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 18:45:42 +0200 (MET)
- To: "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>, "'Chris Lilley'" <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, "E. Stephen Mack" <estephen@emf.net>, www-style@w3.org
On Aug 4, 5:37pm, Chris Wilson (PSD) wrote:
> Well, and the font-family name - or am I missing something, or are you
> assuming that "UA specific" can mean "take it from the last bit of the
> src url?"
> > From: Chris Lilley [SMTP:Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr]
> > It should be written
> >
> >
> > <STYLE TYPE="text/css"><!--
> > @font-face { src: url(http://home.netscape.com/fonts/sample.pfr);
> > }
> > --></STYLE>
<blush> I was talking out of some other orifice than my mouth</>
It should be written
<STYLE TYPE="text/css"><!--
@font-face {
src: url(http://home.netscape.com/fonts/sample.pfr);
font-family: Sample
}
--></STYLE>
The other properties font-style, font-variant, font-weight and font-size
can be left to take their initial values (assuming these values are
appropriate) but the font-family name is required.
Chris, your creative solution is a possible error recovery mechanism but
is fragile, as I am sure you are aware, and should not be relied upon.
I mention this in case anyone thought it was a good idea ;-). It wasn't,
it was just Chris covering himself incase the spec was extraordinary
subtle ;-) Which it wasn't, I was just being sloppy. Sorry.
The WebFonts spec should clearly indicate that the font-family descriptor
is required.
--
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Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium
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