- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 05:02:45 -0700 (PDT)
- To: liam@w3.org
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, www-font@w3.org
Liam Quin wrote: > > [... font-variant-position' property ...] > > > * subscript/superscript variant glyphs are only used if all > > characters are supported by the font > > Does "all characters" mean that if I set the font-variant-position > property on the HTML body element that rendering is held up until > you get to a glyph that's not available as a superscript or to the > end of the document? > > (it's a crazy case, although doing the same sort of thing for small > caps is not so crazy when you consider legal documents) Er, yeah, but that would hit the fallback case fairly quickly unless your document consisted of only a very long number. Not sure I see why this even close to a realistic use case. And I'm not sure how small caps relates since support for small caps is defined differently. John
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