- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 02:11:19 +0000
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- CC: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "Myles C. Maxfield" <mmaxfield@apple.com>
On 11/9/15, 5:55 PM, "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: > >Alan Stearns wrote: > >> Authors will (and should) support older browsers for quite a long >> time. Even after all of the current browsers support the ‘system’ >> value it won’t be safe to use on Windows for years. So they’ll add >> ‘-apple-system’ without the unprefixed generic to their font stacks >> (as Medium has done now) which may force everyone to implement the >> prefixed version (I believe Firefox is already considering this). > >The ancient Windows 3.0-era font 'System' exists on XP but not on >Windows 7 or anything more recent. So I don't really see a great need to >use something more awkward simply to avoid name conflicts with 'system'. >By the time it's implemented in user agents the need to support XP-level >systems will be a thing of the past. Authors can use available >techniques for supporting antique browsers. OK - I did not know that this issue was limited to XP-and-back installs. If that’s the case I’m much less worried. Thanks for the additional details, Alan
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