- From: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:12:50 +1100
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Hi David,
>>> (B) seems like it has some advantages, particularly when local() and
>>> src() are combined, and the font available locally may have more or
>>> fewer glyphs in it depending on what the user has chosen to install.
>>> It also feels more CSS-like to me (which could mean it fits author
>>> expectations better, although maybe not).
>>>
>>> (A) seems like it may have some advantages in terms of speed or
>>> bandwidth usage.
>>>
>>> However, current implementations in WebKit nightlies and in Gecko
>>> nightlies seem to do (A).
>> Prince does (B), and this behaviour is quite useful.
>
> Any chance you could expand on why it's useful? And cc: www-style
> again when replying.
It allows you to define font families with intelligent fallback:
@font-face {
font-family: MyFont;
src: local("Times New Roman"), local("OpenSymbol"), ...
}
In the Prince default style sheets we actually use this to predefine the
default font families such as "serif" and "sans-serif".
Cheers,
Michael
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