- From: divya manian <divya.manian@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:07:38 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
In description of application of synthetic styling on fonts specified in @font-face rule, the spec states: "User agents that implement synthetic bolding and obliqueing must only apply synthetic styling in cases where the font descriptors imply this is needed, rather than based on the style attributes implied by the font data." I understand that this implies that UAs should reject the data that fonts themselves provide to their boldness/obliqueness instead use font descriptors to guide them in this. But from what I know, none of the browsers apply synthetic styling even when font-weight: bold; is set on @font-face rule and the selector uses a normal font-weight. See example [1] So, what does this sentence mean? Does any browser do synthetic styling based on font-descriptors? I only know they do so based on font-weight/font-style properties that are used where the fonts themselves are referenced. - divya [1] http://jsfiddle.net/nimbu/WYZGM/
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