[css-fonts-4] §7.2 Feature and variation precedence ignores font-variant descriptor

[jfkthame]

See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#feature-variation-precedence

In CSS Fonts 3, features implied by the font-variant descriptor are incorporated at step 2 of the Feature Precedence rules: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#feature-precedence.

However, in the current draft of Fonts 4, the corresponding section (now Feature and variation precedence) omits any mention of the font-variant descriptor (although it still accounts for the font-variant property).

Presumably, if the font-variant descriptor is intended to work as in Fonts 3, it should be handled in a new step inserted between rules 5 and 6 in the current text.

[svgeesus]

Agreed; analogy with Fonts 3, where the descriptor is step 2, before step 3 about font-feature-settings descriptor descriptor, then in Fonts 4 that should be between steps 5 and 6.

@litherum I'm assuming this omission is an error, rather than being a deliberate removal?

[svgeesus]

I notice this is changed already, Step 10 says

Font features implied by the value of the font-variant property, the related font-variant subproperties and any other CSS property that uses OpenType features (e.g. the font-kerning property) are applied.