- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:16:59 -0700
- To: Sebastian Zartner <sebastianzartner@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Sebastian Zartner <sebastianzartner@gmail.com> wrote: >> In the context of @font-face rules, there's some crossover between the >> set of descriptors defined for @font-face rules and for style rules >> (e.g. "font-family", "font-weight", "font-style", etc.) but several of >> descriptors are unique to @font-face rules (e.g. "unicode-range", >> "src"). This makes use the CSSStyleDeclaration interface for >> @font-face rules very odd. There are also some subtle differences, >> the "font-family" descriptor for @font-face rules only takes a >> *single* name, not the list of multiple names allowed for the >> "font-family" property in style rules. > > For the sake of differentiating the @font-face descriptors from the > style rule properties are not the same and to avoid unnecessary typing > I suggest to remove "font" from the descriptor names. > So instead of "font-family", "font-style", "font-weight", > "font-stretch", "font-variant" and "font-feature-settings" we'll just > have "family", "style", "weight", "stretch", "variant" and > "feature-settings" inside @font-face. That doesn't seem necessary. I think it's useful and easier to remember if they're just the same names (but formatted in camelCase). (I think it would have been good *originally* to just name the descriptors "weight", "variant", etc., but we're long past that point. ~TJ
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