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All sounded great until > And, since –apple– is a typical vendor prefix for an experimental feature, we included a more future-proof system as the first entry
by davotoula 11y ago
All sounded great until
> And, since –apple– is a typical vendor prefix for an experimental feature, we included a more future-proof system as the first entry
Adding system as font should have rang a few alarm bells with any designers older than 30!
- rockdoe 11y agoSo this is an Apple WebKit extension that can't sanely be un-vendor-prefixed?
- arrrg 11y agoThat’s exactly the reason why those vendor prefixes exist, right? You test the waters in a way that can’t (or is at least unlikely to) screw things up for everyone else. The functionality provided here is obviously useful and should probably become part of CSS – but through incidents like this we just found out that using only system is probably a bad idea and things should be changed.
- bcg1 11y agoBrowsers could just implement it like: font-family: system; /* does what the author expects */ font-family: "System"; /* does what they expect on MS backward-compatibility fantasy island */
- praseodym 11y agoExcept that all browsers that don't yet understand the new meaning of 'system' will then fall back to the old behaviour, that is, the Windows font.
- fit2rule 11y agoHaha, agism, lols. I think you mean, "designers who don't test".
- Lagged2Death 11y agoHaha, agism, lols. You've got this completely backwards. The article itself has a strong agist tone ("whoever could have predicted the emergence of this font from the mists of time...") but you may have a hard time perceiving it. That's because, to the extent there is an agist problem here, the problem is you.
- fit2rule 11y agoYeah, yeah .. I'm not the one thinking only old guys know about System font.