- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:24:07 +0800
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
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
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