Re: font-specific feature handling

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Christopher Slye <cslye@adobe.com> wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Otherwise, fantasai's alt-set idea seems like an interesting solution
>> to Daggett's objections.
>
> As much as I agree with John's aversion to code clutter, I do think that it's better to keep these things tied to specific fonts, one way or another. That said, I don't think John's solution would be the end of the world. We already have this problem in desktop apps like InDesign, which preserve these kinds of font-specific substitutions. I don't think it's had a big real-world impact yet. Maybe someday it will.

Still a fundamentally different set of problems, though.  If InDesign
preserves the substitutions, it's merely an annoyance when you notice
that the new font you're using has weird substitutions.  In CSS, the
weird substitutions will often/nearly always occur in a fallback font
that the author *never sees*, and thus won't have an immediate clue
that there's a problem.

~TJ

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