- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:53:37 -0700
- To: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>, "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Cc: "Style" <www-style@w3.org>
At 1:06 AM +0200 7/29/97, Hakon Lie wrote: >Another solution would be to make 'font' into something other than >just a shorthand property. But overwhelming evidence will need to be >presented. > >The better solution is probably to look at what [1] can offer.. > >[1] http://www12.w3.org/TR/WD-font I'm not sure what form "evidence" might take, overwhelming or otherwise. As I see it, before the more comprehensive font solution taking shape in WD-Font is deployed, CSS1 needs all the help it can get to minimize the clear and present danger of "incomplete overspecification" of faces, sizes, and line-heights - relative units or no - and to stem the tide of image-text in commercial web work. With the change to 'font' David and I are proposing, knowledgeable designers will be able to work more responsibly and effectively with CSS1 in the interim. I'd let seasoned guesses of time-to-deploy be a guide. If it will take one year for this change to be widely deployed, and two for WD-Font, I'd say it's worth pushing. Less than a year's difference, maybe not. This assumes zero to minor architectural complication, and no (further) breakage in today's semi-implementations. ________________________________________ Todd Fahrner mailto:fahrner@pobox.com http://www.verso.com/ The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinitude of books, must be transcended. THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY. --El Lissitzky, 1923
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