Re: [css3-fonts] @font-face matching and font-style descriptor

Chris Lilley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.css.general,gmane.comp.web.fonts
Organization W3C
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 12:58:12 AM, Tab wrote:

TAJ> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Sergey Malkin <[email protected]> wrote:

>> One more clarification is needed, though, regarding use of artificial styles. In case where font-style descriptor is not specified, spec says "default values are assumed". What is default value? Is this equivalent to specified "font-style:normal"?

TAJ> It should probably say "initial value", which is defined for every property.

Except that these are descriptors, not properties. Properties are used to request particular rendering for a given element in the document; descriptors are used to describe a given font and are used to match available fonts against font properties. So some descriptors have the same name as some properties, but not necessarily the same defaults.


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 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
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