Re: font property (was: order of properties)

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Ernest Cline wrote:
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> ['font' shouldn't need the 'font-size' component]
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> Parsing does not seem to be a consideration. [...]
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> The following productions: [...]
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>    font:italic fantasy;
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> would clearly correspond to the following valid CSS: [...]
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>    font: italic medium fantasy;
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> Can anyone explain why font-size is a required component of font?

Why does the above example not map to:

   font: medium "italic fantasy";

...?

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Received on Thursday, 13 March 2003 02:59:28 UTC