Re: [css-fonts] Proposal for standardizing font timeout behavior

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

Received on Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:10:16 UTC