- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 11:47:44 -0700
- To: "Myles C. Maxfield" <mmaxfield@apple.com>
- Cc: Xidorn Quan <me@upsuper.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, John Daggett <jdaggett@gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Myles C. Maxfield <mmaxfield@apple.com> wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2016, at 11:59 PM, Xidorn Quan <me@upsuper.org> wrote: > > Currently, the CSSFontFaceRule interface described in CSS Fonts spec is > not what is implemented in browsers. There were some discussions in the > mailing list last year, and John Daggett said he would try to implement > the new interface in Firefox [1], but it seems he didn't get a chance to > finish that before he left Mozilla. > > > This was added in [1], but that doesn’t provide a link to the discussion. > Similarly, the link you point to [2] is about either implementing or > reverting the spec, rather than why this was proposed in the first place. Do > you think you could link me to the place where this new shape is discussed? > > [1] > https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commit/0647473afb613e735b0cbe9ea98fb77ff244a1ac > [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Dec/0111.html Looks like the discussion was kicked off by bz in <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jun/0650.html>, a few months prior to jdaggett's commit. I fixed @counter-style to the "descriptors directly on the interface" style as well, due to this discussion. (Interesting that just 2 years or so later I'd completely forgotten about this and just blindly copied what Fonts was currently doing. Yay institutional memory!) ~TJ
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