- From: Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org>
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 13:40:54 -0400
- To: "Jonathan Kew" <jfkthame@googlemail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Le Mer 21 août 2013 14:24, "Gérard Talbot" a écrit : > > Le Mer 21 août 2013 12:23, Jonathan Kew a écrit : >> On 21/8/13 06:49, John Daggett wrote: >>> >> ISTM from the recent thread here that the biggest problem with >> font-size-adjust:auto is that people are misunderstanding what it means. >> Even experienced spec-readers here seem to easily misread >> >> # Behaves just like <number>, except the number used is the aspect >> # value calculated by user agents for the first font in the list of >> # fonts defined for the initial value of the ‘font-family’ property. >> >> as though it said >> >> # Behaves just like <number>, except the number used is the aspect >> # value calculated by user agents for the first font in the list of >> # fonts in the ‘font-family’ property. >> >> (and then start to wonder what happens if that "first font" isn't >> available, etc.) Not sure how to make that clearer, but I think we've >> seen ample evidence that the current text is not communicating >> adequately. > > > Why not use the expression "first installed font" or some other expression > which would be more explicit, which would make things more restrictive. > > "first font", "first choice font", "first available font": these 3 > expressions all presume, all refer to the first installed font in the list > of fonts. > > How about: > > # Behaves just like <number>, except the number used is the aspect > # value calculated by user agents for the first installed font in the list > # of specified fonts in the 'font-family' declaration. Duh! I got that wrong!! Please ignore my above comment. The thing is "the first font in the list of fonts defined for the initial value of the 'font-family' property." is not immediately or intuitively obvious. It appears as a cumbersome expression... § 3.6 deserves a complete example to illustrate, demonstrate how such 'auto' works or would work in an normal environment. Gérard -- CSS 2.1 Test suite RC6, March 23rd 2011 http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/toc.html Contributions to CSS 2.1 test suite http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/ Web authors' contributions to CSS 2.1 test suite http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/web-authors-contributions-css21-testsuite.html
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