Hi,
> Clearly, it must be possible to create good apps without numeric font
> weight since most everyone on this list has created a Flash-based Flex app
> and could not use numeric font weight.
What's your point? It's possible to create applications without any features
you name, be that components like datagrid, or using no CSS at all or not using
borders or colour or images or what ever.
If you add a designer to your team they are very likely to want to support
different fonts, alphas, font weight, background image, line height, text
transform and the like.
Why would we actively want to stop people from setting font weights? Why would
we not want to follow the standards? Why would we want to disable browser
features just because they are not supported in AS?
I think a nice 1.0 set of CSS features to aim for would be to support most of
the well supported subset of CSS 2.1 features as mentioned on caniuse.com and
elsewhere.
Users of the framework would probably expect this as a minimum if they have a
JS background.
The properties include the following:
• background-color
• background-image
• background-position (2 params)
• background-repeat (repeat | repeat-x | repeat-y | no-repeat)
• border-collapse (collapse | separate)
• border-color
• border-spacing
• border-style
• bottom
• color
• clear (none | left | right | both)
• display (none | inline | block | list-item)
• float (none | left | right)
• font-family
• font-size
• font-style (normal | italic | oblique)
• font-variant (normal | small-caps)
• font-weight
• height
• left
• line-height
• list-style
• list-style-image
• list-style-position
• margin
• overflow (visible | hidden | scroll | auto)
• padding
• position (static | relative | absolute)
• right
• text-align (left | right | center | justify)
• text-decoration (none | underline | overline | line-through)
• text-indent
• text-transform (capitalize | uppercase | lowercase | none)
• top
• width
• word-spacing
• visibility (visible | hidden)
• z-index
We support most of them to some extent already.
Thanks,
Justin
