- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:22:42 +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, 6:11 PM, "Alan Stearns" <stearns@adobe.com> wrote: >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. Except that I just did a vanilla install of Win10, and I have a ‘System’ font present. So I’m back to worrying again. Thanks, Alan
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