- From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:07:46 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 24/01/2008, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote: > That said, what are the use cases for this? When is it useful? > (Can it be useful in cases where the author doesn't necessarily know > what fonts are going to be used?) FWIW, isn't it true that the author NEVER knows (for sure) what fonts are going to be used? (That's why we should specify serif / sans-serif etc as fallback, right? And even that can fail for pathological cases.) Returning to the proposal, though, what would the bbox option be intended to do? At least for some fonts, the font bbox would not have any meaningful use due to a few odd glyphs with a very large bbox, say; I would say that, in general, the font bbox is meaningless for the purpose of vertical alignment. -- cheers, -ambrose Yahoo and Gmail must die. Yes, I use them, but they still must die. PS: Don't trust everything you read in Wikipedia. (Very Important)
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