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[list4xt] Re: 4xt.org ITALIC ????

Subject: [list4xt] Re: 4xt.org ITALIC ????

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From: Mike Brown (mike@skew.org)
Date: 27/08/2000 - 22:08

Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:
> > The CSS specs say that font names containing whitespace should be quoted.
> > font-family: "lucida sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif, times;
>
> Why CSS specs says it?

It's a "should", not a "must". I assume it's because most whitespace is
ignorable, except between selectors (e.g. p em{font-weight:bold}).

> Anyway, because this restriction is useless,
> browsers do not implement it.

I agree that it is a dumb restriction, since commas separate values in
font lists, but I have seen it make a difference. I don't recall where.
Netscape on X11 or something like that.

> I mean that "lucida sans" or lucida sans have no impact on this
> 'italic' effect. The problem is "lucida sans unicode".

Probably right.

   - Mike
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Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources:
webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.skew.org/xml/ 

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