- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:33:48 +0200
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- CC: WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
On Thursday, April 19, 2012, 9:33:05 AM, John wrote: JD> I propose changing the wording above to: JD> The <string> is a case-sensitive OpenType feature tag. For it to JD> match an OpenType feature contained in a font, it must follow the JD> syntax rules for these tags. As specified in the OpenType JD> specification, feature tags contain four ASCII characters. Tag JD> strings longer or shorter than four characters, or containing JD> characters outside the U+20-7E codepoint range must be treated as JD> invalid. User agents must not use a feature tag created by JD> truncating or padding the string to four characters. That looks clearer and more testable to me. JD> The current editor's draft also lists an issue as to whether quotes JD> should be required. I think it would be best to resolve this now and JD> simply require quotes. The Webkit-prefixed version of Chrome on JD> Windows doesn't require them but the IE10 Preview version does. I JD> think there was enough opposition to unquoted strings during the JD> original discussion of this [2] that it would make sense to require JD> quotes and remove the issue from the spec. I agree with that as well. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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