- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:23:34 -0700
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:52 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
> wrote:
>
>> For your example here, all you need to do is write this instead:
>>
>> sup {
>> vertical-align: -.4em;
>> font-size: .8em;
>> }
>
> My point is that this assumes that vertical-align us the only way people
> will want to deal with the fallback for SUP, and that assumption is
> erroneous, and will cause confusion for those using a different way.
That is, however, the "official" way to do it. As well, if you're
providing a font with the correct super/subscript characters already,
you should hopefully be reasonable sure that the font will display, so
that it will only *not* show up in a network-error fallback solution,
where exact appearance is less important, so you don't need to employ
special just-so rules to get the rendering how you want.
~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:24:27 UTC