- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:06:07 -0700
- To: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Received on Thursday, 30 October 2014 22:07:34 UTC
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 7:09 AM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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]). That sounds like a fine idea. Do most dingbat fonts do that these days?
Received on Thursday, 30 October 2014 22:07:34 UTC