- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:58:36 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "Jens O. Meiert" <jens@meiert.com>
- Cc: W3C WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
Jens Meiert wrote: > I vaguely remember the specs say that font family names are > case-sensitive. I know empirically, on the other hand, that > implementations are treating these names case-insensitively. > > I can’t for the love of it find where any spec actually mandates > case-sensitivity though (CSS 2.1 and 3 both seem to be vague > [1,2])—what do I miss? Er, how about the section of CSS3 Fonts titled "Case sensitivity of font family names"? :P http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-fonts/#font-family-casing Font family names have *never* been case sensitive. There are all sorts of quirks in existing user agents about the exact flavor of name matched but at a minimum ASCII names are always matched insensitively. Search the www-style archive for the many long and scintillating discussions of case insensitivity over the past year. Cheers, John Daggett
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