- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:20:12 +0100
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
> Indeed. Instead of writing
[snip]
> you would write:
>
> h1 { font-familiy: Headline, url(http://example.com/fonts/hdl.zip), serif }
>
> It's an obvious simplification. So obvious that several people --
> including Dave Raggett and Dave Hyatt -- independently have proposed
> it.
But it's ugly. Ugly ugly ugly. "Font-family: " currently
takes a comma-separated list and falls back to the n+1th
entry if it can't access the nth. In your syntax, it's
unclear whether it falls back from "Headline" to
"url(http://example.com/fonts/hdl.zip)", or whether
"Headline" is a priori assumed to come /from/ "url(http://example.com/fonts/hdl.zip)"
(In the snipped code, it clearly came /from/ "url(http://example.com/fonts/hdl.zip)"
rather than falling back to it.) And if it is intended that
it fall back to "url(http://example.com/fonts/hdl.zip)", from which
of the many possible entries in the ZIP file is it assumes to take
the font ?
Philip Taylor
Received on Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:17:43 UTC