Re: [css3 fonts] font-specific features
Chris Lilley <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.css.general,gmane.comp.web.fonts |
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| Organization | W3C |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Friday, September 17, 2010, 9:47:22 PM, Sylvain wrote: SG> This is not directly related but allow me to use the opportunity SG> to ask the same dumb question I asked at Typecon: how do authors SG> find out about the features available in a font and the correct SG> integer values to use ? They read the ample documentation that comes with the font. No? Ok well then they use trial and error. Or load it into a font editor and look. Yes, this is way harder to figure out than it needs to be. SG> Next question for the Web Fonts WG is: would an enumeration of SG> the features available in a font be a valuable use of the WOFF SG> metadata block ? I suspect it would make the latter far more SG> valuable to authors and thus add incentives for browser/tool SG> vendors to display its content. Interesting idea. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups