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Harris Kosmidhs
 
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Default font-stretch - 03-04-2008 , 05:21 AM






Hello.

I see there is a W3C CSS2 specification for font-stretch property. I
also see that no browser supports it. Why is that?

And is there a work around for this? I don't want to use an image for
such a job if it's possible.

Thanks

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Johannes Koch
 
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Default Re: font-stretch - 03-04-2008 , 05:55 AM






Harris Kosmidhs schrieb:
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I see there is a W3C CSS2 specification for font-stretch property. I
also see that no browser supports it. Why is that?
You should ask the browser manufacturers.

Quote:
And is there a work around for this?
Try e.g. to select a condensed font using the font-family property.

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In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
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C A Upsdell
 
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Default Re: font-stretch - 03-04-2008 , 07:49 AM



Harris Kosmidhs wrote:
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Hello.

I see there is a W3C CSS2 specification for font-stretch property. I
also see that no browser supports it. Why is that?
There are a number of features in CSS 2 which were never implemented.
These were dropped in CSS 2.1, so perhaps no browser maker felt the need
to add them.





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Jukka K. Korpela
 
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Default Re: font-stretch - 03-04-2008 , 09:04 AM



Scripsit Johannes Koch:

Quote:
Harris Kosmidhs schrieb:
I see there is a W3C CSS2 specification for font-stretch property. I
also see that no browser supports it. Why is that?

You should ask the browser manufacturers.
We might also ask the people who wrote the CSS 2.0 specification. The
font-stretch property would be fairly useless even if implemented. And
we haven't got decent implementations of font-style, font-variant, or
font-weight in popular browsers, so why did they bother adding
font-stretch in CSS 2.0 (just to be taken out in CSS 2.1)?

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