RE: [css3-fonts] new editor's draft posted

[Liam R E Quin:]
> I am not convinced by making all of the hard-coded sub-properties.
> The stability of the Adobe opentype feature registry isn't clear, and I
> think having "low-level" and "high-level" access to the same features
> confusing - you can turn ligatures on with one property and off again with
> another, they are not orthogonal.  In addition, as new features are added
> from time to time, or for other font formats, CSS would need to be updated.

I was starting to wonder about that. If a font-variant-* property and the font-feature-settings
property contradict each other, what happens ?