Re: [css3-transitions][css3-fonts] should font weights be interpolated?

I believe that's an accurate assessment of CSS font weights (which also requires remapping actual font weights as they really are numbers and don't always fit those increments).

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On Dec 21, 2010, at 19:21, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:

> The CSS3 Transitions spec currently lists font-weight as being of type
> “number”.  Does this mean that a transition should interpolate between
> values?  For example with:
> 
>  <style>span { transition: font-weight 5s; font-weight: 100 }</style>
>  <script>
>    mySpan.style.fontWeight = 900;
>  </script>
> 
> should the property get values 100, 200, …, 800, 900 over the course of
> the 5s?  I think I remember someone or some spec saying that these
> numbers are really keyword values, and not really to be treated as
> numbers.  If so, then I think interpolation shouldn’t happen.
> 
> Slightly relatedly, the CSS3 Fonts spec says for font-weight “Computed
> value: see description”, but there is no explicit description of whether
> normal computes to 400, etc.  It just says that normal has the same
> meaning as 400.
> 
> -- 
> Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
>

Received on Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:04:33 UTC