- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:56:07 -0700
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Cc: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:20 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: > Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> Add a hint that agents may synthesize stretch? >> > >> > I don't think user agents should synthesize stretch. With CSS >> > transforms, authors can stretch or squish text if like this if they >> > like but I don't think it should be something done automagically by >> > user agents. >> >> Using transforms for stretching/shrinking fonts doesn't make sense. >> That would stretch/shrink the entire element, not just the text. > > Stretch is typically "synthesized" by via an x-scale transform on > individual glyphs, the effect is the same. Right, synthesizing it by running a transform on individual glyphs would make sense. You can't do that with CSS transforms, though. ~TJ
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