- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@technologist.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 20:09:43 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
The Web fonts spec looks very complete. Good work! I wonder, though, if it has to be so explicitly tied to CSS. If XML's stylesheet language is not CSS, or if another stylesheet language is developed for HTML, then the WebFonts work would presumably be not applicable. Right now the syntax and semantics are inextricably tied. So much so that strictly speaking this standard would have to be updated when CSS2 comes out, or incorporated into it: "This specification extends the font mechanisms in CSS1..." I think that it would be possible to define descriptors and algorithms with a variable syntax and present a *sample syntax* that happens to be CSS for pedagogic purposes. This could save a lot of work later on as well as perhaps extend the specification's applicability -- perhaps even to non-web applications. Paul Prescod
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