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CSS root font units #112

Closed danielsakhapov closed 1 year ago

danielsakhapov commented 1 year ago

Request for position on an emerging web specification

Information about the spec

Spec Title: CSS Values and Units Module
Spec URL: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values/#font-relative-lengths
GitHub repository: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts

Design reviews and vendor positions

Mozilla standards-positions issue: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/725

Anything else we need to know

Request specifically for rex, rch, ric, rcap.

annevk commented 1 year ago

cc @anttijk @jensimmons

nt1m commented 1 year ago

Generally this seems like an useful feature, though I think this requires unconditionally initializing font metrics for the root element as opposed to rem or rlh which just read from the computed style. Not sure if that is an issue or not. cc @litherum who may have an informed opinion on this.

litherum commented 1 year ago

We are positive on these new units. They seem useful and easy to implement. We don’t expect performance problems with them.

annevk commented 1 year ago

Marking as "position: support" per above comments. (Not waiting another week as plenty of time passed since Tim's initial comment.)