Link to the use counter?

On Friday, November 5, 2021 at 3:00:27 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:

> Average usage during October for font-family: webkit-pictograph was 
> 0.00003094
>
> On Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 9:44:00 AM UTC+3 [email protected] 
> wrote:
>
>> I just re-ran the pictograph query and got 3231 results out of ~7.5 
>> million pages, which puts us back in the 0.04% range.
>>
>> Adding a use-counter sounds like a reasonable way to see what actual 
>> usage looks like. 
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 7:36 AM Frédéric Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Le 13/08/2021 à 14:23, Frédéric Wang a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Interoperability and Compatibility 
>>>
>>> This feature was implemented by Apple in 2011 before the Blink fork and 
>>> is still implemented in WebKit. It has never been implemented in Firefox.
>>>
>>> A HTTPArchive search from March 2020 provided 1903 pages out of 
>>> ~5millions (i.e. 0.0003806%). I'm adding a user counter to actually measure 
>>> when a -webkit-pictograph font is actually resolved to the corresponding 
>>> user font setting which may give more accurate/relevant data.
>>>
>>> One motivation is to improve interop with Firefox and spec compliance. 
>>> But I'm also trying to refactor our internal font-family implementation 
>>> that is inherited from WebKit time and is a bit messy right now. Original 
>>> generic names like "serif" or "cursive" have web-exposed bugs ; the 
>>> recently implemented "system-ui" too but behaves inconsistently ; and we 
>>> have non-standard values like -webkit-pictograph. Once things are cleaned 
>>> up, we can consider implementing new values like font-family: emoji, math, 
>>> fangsong, ui-serif, etc without adding more problems...
>>>
>>> ... however, one can also argue that it's would be better to implement 
>>> "font-family: emoji" as a replacement/alias to "font-family: 
>>> -webkit-pictograph" before deprecating/removing the latter. Again, this is 
>>> possible but mean we would add more web-exposed bugs / inconsistencies in 
>>> the meantime. 
>>> So I'm not really sure about the best approach. Sending "Intent to 
>>> Prototype" for now and waiting for feedback.
>>>
>>> *Gecko*: Positive No support for -webkit-pictograph 
>>>
>>> *WebKit*: No signal (
>>> https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2021-August/031938.html) 
>>> This has been implemented in WebKit since 2011. In general Apple is against 
>>> removing features that could potentially break web compat or their 
>>> platform. I asked them to see if they would be happy to add "font-family: 
>>> emoji" as an alias for -webkit-pictograph, as they did for "system-ui". In 
>>> general about the current font-family implementation, Myles C. Maxfield 
>>> commented in the github PR to add WPT tests that he is aware of the issue 
>>> and doesn't think it's desirable that these -webkit-* values are 
>>> web-exposed. 
>>>
>>> *Web developers*: No signals "font-family: emoji" was added in the CSS 
>>> fonts spec, so I guess there is interest to make this more standard. I was 
>>> not able to find the github discussion, though. 
>>>
>>> So just to follow-up here too,
>>>
>>> HTTPArchive result from March 2020 from Yoav were:
>>>
>>> * -webkit-pictograph alone represented less than 0.04% of pages.
>>> * -webkit-pictograph + -webkit-body + -webkit-standard represented less 
>>> than 0.1426%
>>>
>>> That sounded big, so I had started to prepare a use counter that would 
>>> provide finer measurement (i.e. only measure when the font family setting 
>>> is actually resolved for -webkit-pictograph) : 
>>> https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/2124260
>>>
>>> New results from August 2021 provided by Yoav and Dominik showed that 
>>> together -webkit-pictograph + -webkit-body + -webkit-standard represent 
>>> less than 0.004% of HTTPArchive pages so it's an order of magnitude smaller.
>>>
>>> Reference doc: 
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nYJzL-MWQrTmf9Z-KscTWuM_5n6-IVdJeEllJ3Appro
>>>
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