font-stretch

Harris Kosmidhs

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

Mar 4 '08 #1

Johannes Koch

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.

And is there a work around for this?

Try e.g. to select a condensed font using the font-family property.

--
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
(Te Deum, 4th cent.)

Mar 4 '08 #2

C A Upsdell

Harris Kosmidhs wrote:

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.

Mar 4 '08 #3

Jukka K. Korpela

Scripsit Johannes Koch:

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)?

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Mar 4 '08 #4