- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:57:13 +0100
- To: Octavio Alvarez Piza <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Octavio Alvarez Piza wrote: >>would this not be more likely to be >> >> > font-family: "TSCu_Comic", url(TSCu_Comic.ttf), sans-serif; >> >>with the semantics "First look for a resident copy of "TSCu_Comic", >>then try to download one if there is no resident copy, and finally >>fall back on the browser sans font if the download fails or is not >>supported ? I cannot see why one might want your ordering in >>99.9% of cases. > > > Being CSS information about a web page, it should *never* tell a > browser how to behave: that is up to the standard. That should be > simply > > font-family: "TSCu_Comic", url(TSCu_Comic.ttf), sans-serif; I do not understand the difference between what you and I have written : are you not saying exactly the same as me (up to this point) ? Or is your objection to the fact that I sought to make the semantics explicit, whereas you would prefer to leave them unstated and rely on the readers' familiarity with CSS ? Philip Taylor
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