Re: should we remove the kerning property in favour of font-kerning?

• From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
• Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 10:45:25 +1000
• To: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
• CC: Nikolas Zimmermann <zimmermann@kde.org>, SVG public list <www-svg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4FC6BF25.90407@mcc.id.au>

Dirk Schulze:
> No, more like 'gradientTransform' attribute that sets the 'transform' property. So 'kerning' would be a presentation attribute for 'font-kerning'. You could set kerning by:
>
> kerning="2"
>
> or
>
> style="font-kerning: 2px;"
>
>
> If you specify both together, than the inline style overrides the attribute value:
>
> kerning="2" style="font-kerning: 3px"
>
> would be a kerning of 3px.

That's an option, though I think that if we are happy with removing 
kerning then we should have the font-kerning presentation attribute 
match the property name.

Received on Thursday, 31 May 2012 00:46:04 UTC