- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:44:49 -0800
- To: Ben Ward <benmward@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C Style List <www-style@w3.org>
On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Ben Ward wrote: > Using commas for background-image specifies _additional_ images while > using commas in font-family specifies _fallback_ typefaces. > I'm not sure it's all that inconsistent actually. For example, when you specify multiple fallback fonts, you are creating a situation where a run of text could render with glyphs from any or all of the fonts in the list. In practice this doesn't happen that often, but the reality is that a fallback list can really result in a "multiple font' rendering for a given run of text. dave
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