2011-06-23 2:51, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
For the font-size, you could do something now, by using font-size-adjust.
Something, but not programmed selection of property values depending on
availability and use of fonts, which is what the question seems to be about.
> Unfortunately, support is somewhat spotty :-( - basically limited to
> Gecko 1.9.0 + (Firefox 3.0 and newer) and IE 9 (if I'm not wrong).
You're wrong about IE 9, at least if we can believe Microsoft:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#font
(Ugly URL for a nice resource, "CSS Compatibility and Internet
Explorer", i.e. description of support to CSS in different IE versions
from 5 to 9.)
In the future, you should be able to solve this with @font-face:
Well, maybe. CSS3 seems to try its best in running forward so that
browser vendors won't ever catch it. :-)
Hmm, use @font-face to load a font with real small caps?
That's possible, if you create such a font or get permission to use
someone else's. And you need it in at least two formats.
I guess the OP wants to use specifically Copperplate, not just "a" font
with real small caps. Copperplate isn't a typical small-caps font at
all. For traditional typographic use of small-caps, you would really
want to have a small-caps typeface of a font that you otherwise use. A
font that _only_ exists as small-caps is of limited usefulness.
@font-face does not solve the problem posed, but surely many other
problems. Perhaps @font-face often makes the problem under discussion
unnecessary to solve: if you can force (for some values of "force") your
font to be downloaded and used, you won't need to care about what
happens when your font is not used.
> And don't specify font-variant in your stylesheet.
It's indeed better not use it, because browsers do wrong things about
it, as I wrote earlier.
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