Re: [css3-fonts] Font Matching Algorithm: Comments I

On 05/22/2013 01:50 PM, fantasai wrote:
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-fonts/#font-style-matching
>
>    # The procedure for choosing fonts consists of iterating
>    # over the font families determined by the font-family
>    # property, selecting a font face with the appropriate
>    # style based on other font properties and then determining
>    # whether a glyph exists for a given character.
>
> This sentence seems like a rather incorrect summary of the
> algorithm: it's missing the bit where you loop back if the
> glyph is missing for that character, which is a pretty key
> bit imo. IIRC, most systems in the 90s didn't have this
> feature--you'd just get missing glyphs--so this is a
> distinctive feature of how CSS font-matching works.

Note, there's a suggested rewording in:
   http://www.w3.org/mid/519C6E78.2020400@inkedblade.net

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 07:24:41 UTC