- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:10:49 +0100
- To: Cecil Ward <cecil@cecilward.com>
- CC: www-validator-css@w3.org
Surely
a {font-family: "Serif"}
simply specifies that the font family for <A> elements
should be the font called "Serif" (if it exists), and
makes no reference to the generic serif font family
at all ?
Philip Taylor
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Cecil Ward wrote:
> Test case checked using direct input mode, grammar CSS2 selected:
>
> Test case :
>
> a { font-family: "Serif"; }
>
>
> I believe that the above is illegal, if my reading of CSS 2.1 and CSS 2 is
> correct, yet the validator reports no error.
>
> Reasoning: CSS2 section 15.2.2 states "Generic font family names are
> keywords, and therefore must not be quoted.".
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Cecil Ward.
>
>
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