Re: [css3-fonts] character-transform and vertical-align

>> Note that this legacy behavior is *not* triggered in the absence of
>> the feature in the system fonts, it is only triggered in the absence
>> of support for the character-transform property itself.
> 
> I didn't realize that. Now i'm confused. So... What happens to SUP if  
> the UA supports character-transform, but the system fonts don't have  
> the feature (and the font is not embedded)? I imagined it _would_ use  
> the font-size, etc. as fallbacks. 

No, go back and look at the wording I wrote up, the fallback when
character-transform is supported is more akin to the way fake small-caps
are simulated.  This hopefully avoids the artifacts of
line-height/baseline fiddling in current clients as I think you've
mentioned you dislike.

John