- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:54:07 -0500
- To: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
2010/1/6 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>: > There should have been and be some mechanism that prevents attempts to render > fonts in sizes that can't get the job done. That might mean either resorting > to bitmaps or some nearest neighbor type mechanism to translate an em or % > request for a (CJK) font into a size that can work for the viewer. > > That some CJK fonts only work right at certain sizes not an excuse to use px > for sizing before such time as all users can set the size of a px to meet > their legibility and usability requirements. You are missing the point. The fact that CJK fonts *used to* only work at certain sizes is *precisely* because they were bitmaps. Therefore if you are proposing using bitmaps to fudge things, then you *must* allow px sizes. -- cheers, -ambrose
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