Re: [css3-fonts] low-level font features

On Jun 22, 2010, at 5:41 PM, John Daggett wrote:

>> I'm guessing that layout engines encountering unregistered features,
>> if they do anything with them at all, will process them after
>> registered features, but to my knowledge there is no standard
>> protocol regarding this.
> 
> Is this something that we should ask the OpenType folks to clarify in
> a future spec revision?  Including this in a CSS spec doesn't feel
> right although it would be expedient.

I remember that canonized feature order was a point of contention (mild or otherwise) between Microsoft and Adobe. I'm not sure what the status of that is today. I'll ask -- but perhaps someone with firsthand knowledge might chime in here first.

-C