- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:13:40 +0200
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>, <www-style@w3.org>
On Friday, August 13, 2010, 4:39:42 AM, Tab wrote: TAJ> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:06 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: >>> 3.3 Font width: the font-stretch property >>> 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. TAJ> Using transforms for stretching/shrinking fonts doesn't make sense. TAJ> That would stretch/shrink the entire element, not just the text. In retrospect, 'stretch' was a really bad choice of name. mea culpa. The original intent was to have a descriptor to distinguish Helvetica, Helvetica Condensed, Helvetica Narrow while keeping them all in the 'Helvetica' font family; and a property that allows these different 'width-variants' to be selected. Geometric squishing or stretching was never the intention here. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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