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Re: [font-load-events] 'match' method of FontFace

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:19:27 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDAP5tU+CX9e0d+yZkBYYCDGri9aOg9CQvV8O+27rpJr0Q@mail.gmail.com>
To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:30 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I omitted one issue from my mail yesterday, the 'match' method of
> FontFace doesn't make any sense.  A FontFace object represents a
> single face of a font family.  Font matching is the operation of
> picking the closest match for a given set of font properties (*not*
> descriptors!) *and* a given character.  So any form of 'match'
> operation applies to a set of faces and never to a single face.  The
> only place a 'match' method makes sense is on the FontFaceSet object.

Done.

~TJ
Received on Thursday, 12 September 2013 11:20:14 UTC

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