LGTM1, I'm very happy to see this ship. I tried out https://roettsch.es/montecarlo.html in Firefox and Safari, and those are some very swishy swashes, looking forward to that demo also working in Chrome :)
And the tests are here: https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-fonts?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=font-variant-alternates On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 3:50 PM Dominik Röttsches <[email protected]> wrote: > Contact [email protected] > > Explainer / Specification > https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#font-variant-alternates-prop > (This section contains details examples including images on how this > feature enables easier activation of font features.) > > Summary > > font-variant-alternates enables simpler access to glyph alternates in > fonts such as swashes, character-variants, ornaments and more. It provides > an easier method over having to use 4-letter-codes (e.g. 'swsh', 'cv01'...) > as arguments to font-feature-settings. font-variant-alternates refers to > the @font-feature-values at-rule to map speaking feature names to > OpenType feature numbers. In the font-variant-alternates style rule, the > requested feature activation becomes easy to use and to read and allows > flexible combination of font features. > > > *Motivation* > > As *part of Interop 2022* we committed to supporting > font-variant-alternates and @font-feature-values in order to reach parity > with Firefox and Safari on this aspect of OpenType feature selection > through CSS. > > > The ergonomics of font-variant-alternates are better than having to know > OpenType feature codes and passing them to font-feature-settings. > > > Blink componentBlink>Fonts > <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EFonts> > > TAG reviewShipping in two browsers for a long time. > > TAG review statusNot applicable > > Risks > > > Interoperability and Compatibility > > Low, extensively tested in WPT, shipped in Firefox and Safari. > > > *Gecko*: Shipped/Shipping ( > https://caniuse.com/?search=font-variant-alternates) Shipped in Firefox > since 34. > > *WebKit*: Shipped/Shipping ( > https://caniuse.com/?search=font-variant-alternates) Shipped in Safari > since 9.1 > > *Web developers*: Web developers opinions were taken into account in the > interop 2022 process - so I'd tend to say the fact it's part of Interop > 2022 indicates: "positive". > > *Other signals*: https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022 - font-variant-alternates > amounts to 16% improvement in the Fonts and Typography Category of Interop > 2022, about ~1% of the total score. > > Ergonomics > > This feature provides an ergonomics improvement over font-feature-settings. > > > Activation > > Developers can immediately benefit from this feature when they write their > own @font-feature-values mappings to font features, based on the font's > documentation or tools such as https://wakamaifondue.com/. On top of > that, if the font foundry provides a @font-feature-values block, it becomes > even easier to activate font features. > > > WebView application risks > > Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that > it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? > > > > Debuggability > > The font-variant-alternates property is debugged through DevTools as > usual. This way parsing issues or invalid values can be detected. There's > no extra support for the @font-feature-values rule. > > Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, > Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?Yes > > Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests > <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> > ?Yes > > Flag nameAtm available behind experimental web platform features (sson in > Canary, from 12/8/22) > > Requires code in //chrome?False > > Tracking bughttps://crbug.com/716567 > > Sample linkshttps://roettsch.es/montecarlo.html > > Estimated milestones > > 110 > > Anticipated spec changes > > None > > Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status > https://chromestatus.com/feature/5070560260784128 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "blink-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAN6muBsWXm4CYzT_%2BsTVW8X%3DKMJfkmVEv40_QHTjmDOV%3DSwAHA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAN6muBsWXm4CYzT_%2BsTVW8X%3DKMJfkmVEv40_QHTjmDOV%3DSwAHA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAARdPYdt3od%3DoYYcYXq-Dx%3DOryTdDrOUCcQtbNvPrLsDqUfbBw%40mail.gmail.com.
