Re: Property font-stretch doesn't exist : wider

Oliver,

Many thanks for the info, and especially the link to the in-dev validator..

olivier Thereaux wrote:
> CSS2.1 only includes properties that were implemented. In other words, 
> if font-stretch: wider is not in CSS2.1, there is not much point, 
> right now, in using it. I gather that the CSS Working Group (in charge 
> of CSS standardization) expects to bring it back, and have it properly 
> implemented, for CSS3.
>
>> If the former, it would be nice if the validator included a warning 
>> to say that the same is valid in 2.0 and 3.0
>
> Ta-da:
> http://qa-dev.w3.org:8001/css-validator/
> (still in development)
>
>> and give information about how to hint to browsers that one is using 
>> CSS 2.0 or CSS 3.0.
>
> Versioning in CSS is controversial… The CSS WG is preparing a document 
> explaining its vision of CSS as one whole, with different profiles, 
> not versions. I hope it will be made public very soon: when it does, 
> and if it can provide a number of clarifications, including what to do 
> with discrepancies between CSS1 and CSS2 core syntax, the CSS 
> validator will be updated to reflect this (as you can see on the 
> qa-dev instance)
>
> Regards,

Received on Wednesday, 17 October 2007 08:19:01 UTC