- From: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 06:50:37 -0700
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- CC: SVG public list <www-svg@w3.org>, Nikolas Zimmermann <zimmermann@kde.org>
On May 27, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > SVG 1.1 has the kerning property, which lets you override the kerning > information from the font to use a specific value. You can use > "kerning: 0" to disable kerning, for example. css3-fonts defines the > font-kerning property, which has values "none" to disable kerning, > "normal" to apply it, and "auto" to give the UA some leeway in > determining whether it should apply. I rely on the experience of Niko and I hope he answers to this thread as well. Personally I would continue with CSS styling and am in favor for dropping 'kerning'. But I have no idea if it is in use somewhere. > > The kerning property is implemented by WebKit, but not Gecko or Opera. > (Sorry Jen for not testing IE in this and recent mails; opening up my VM > is a bit of a drag.) > > Can we drop kerning, and go ahead with font-kerning? The combination of > font-kerning and letter-spacing can achieve everything that the kerning > property can. > Greetings, Dirk
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