- From: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:09:47 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 30/10/14 13:36, Brad Kemper wrote: >> I'm guessing the 'mandatory <infinite>' for >> Safari is just a bug not really a feature. > > It is kind of crazy to have that for everything, but I think > 'mandatory infinite' would be useful for icon/picture fonts. Or, if > not 'infinite', then some sort of keyword to make it fall back to a > generic glyph (such as a square), instead of whatever letter the icon > is mapped to. . > What's this about "whatever letter the icon is mapped to"?! Icon glyphs should not be mapped to letters. They should be mapped to the appropriate Unicode symbols/dingbats/emoji/whatever (which means applying browser font fallback is perfectly reasonable); or if the icon concerned is not encoded in Unicode, then to Private Use Area codepoints (for which browsers shouldn't be attempting font fallback at all; see CSS3-Fonts[1]). JK [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#char-handling-issues
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