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[css-fonts-4] compat problem with 'system' generic font family?

From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 23:39:26 +0000
To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, "Myles C. Maxfield" <mmaxfield@apple.com>
Message-ID: <2C6AEFE8-7BD9-4B81-9C3B-142D98933B76@adobe.com>
Hey all,



Given Medium’s experiment [1] with a font stack that looks like:

font-family: system, -apple-system, …

Where ‘system’ matched a bitmap font apparently still included in Windows installations, do we need to pick a different unprefixed name for this new generic font family?

Thanks,

Alan

[1] https://medium.com/@mwichary/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596f

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