Re: [css3-fonts] new editor's draft

I agree with you at this point.

A solution can be the introduction of a rule that say a @font-face rule 
containing unknown property should be dropped by the browser.
Is that solving the problem ?

    /* Browsers that don't support hypothetical "font-transform" */
    @font-face {
        font-family: X;
        src: url('My Font.ttf');
    }

    /* Browsers that support "font-arrange" will only consider this last 
declaration */
    @font-face {
        font-family: X;
        font-transform: uppercase;
        src: local('Times New Roman');
    }

Fremy

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From: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 5:30 PM
To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
Cc: "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com>; "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>
Subject: Re: [css3-fonts] new editor's draft

>
> On Tuesday 2009-01-20 12:55 +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be better to simply require using MyFont1 and MyFont2 rather
>> than having some special behavior in case you have several @font-face
>> blocks using the same identifier?
>>
>> I personally would expect the last @font-face rule there to override the
>> first.
>
> Are you proposing that @font-face rules that have identical
> descriptors (other than 'src') drop all but the last identical
> descriptor?  That's problematic because then you then have to
> determine which @font-face rules are identical, which could be a big
> problem if we ever want to add a new descriptor like 'unicode-range'
> or add to the syntax of 'unicode-range' (in which case the
> descriptor would be dropped).
>
> Consider, for example, what would have happened in that rule if
> implementations initially implemented @font-face without
> 'unicode-range' (as some are), and then 'unicode-range' were
> introduced in the next level of the specification.  In such a
> situation, pages wouldn't be able to split fonts and use
> 'unicode-range' until all implementations they cared about supported
> it.
>
> -David
>
> -- 
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>

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