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So this is an Apple WebKit extension that can't sanely be un-vendor-prefixed?
by rockdoe 11y ago
So 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.