Re: [nightly-unstable] 2 problems with font-size-114 : font-size of span redefined, too many levels or "may" flag missing

Le Sam 11 février 2012 19:00, "Gérard Talbot" a écrit :
> Hello,
>
>
> http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/html4/font-size-114.htm
>
> 1-
>
> line    12     span { font-size: larger; }
>
>     13     .tests * { vertical-align: bottom; }
>
> line    14     .tests, span { font: 900 1em Ahem, Verdana, sans-serif;
> color: navy; }
>
> At line 12, font-size of inner spans is set and defined to be 'larger'.
> At line 14, font-size of spans is reset and redefined to be 1em which is
> the font-size of its parent. The font shorthand redefines the font-size
> at line 14. So, current browsers (Firefox 10, Opera 11.61, Chrome
> 17.0.963.46) are correctly handling such test.
>
> Line 14 should be instead/rather/replaced with:
>
> .tests { font: 900 1em Ahem, Verdana, sans-serif; color: navy; }
>
> span {font-family: Ahem, Verdana, sans-serif;}
>
> 2-
> The specification says:
> "
> A <relative-size> keyword is interpreted relative to the table of font
> sizes and the font size of the parent element. Possible values are: [
> larger | smaller ]. For example, if the parent element has a font size
> of 'medium', a value of 'larger' will make the font size of the current
> element be 'large'. (...) The UA *may* have to extrapolate table values
> if the numerical value goes beyond the keywords.
> "
>
> and the table of font sizes is:
>
> CSS absolute-size values
> xx-small  x-small  small  medium  large  x-large  xx-large
>
> So, a test which would test all known absolute-size would only use 6
> levels deep of nested-ness (depth of tree). In font-size-114, there are
> 25 (!) levels of nested spans. So, either the test should use the "may"
> flag or it should reduce the levels of nested spans to 6 levels.

This test

http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/font-size-114-alternate.html

is passed by Firefox 10, Opera 11.61, Chrome 17 and Konqueror 4.8.

Gérard
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Received on Sunday, 12 February 2012 00:13:49 UTC