[webkit-dev] Request for position: CSS @font-face descriptor advance-override

Dominik Röttsches drott at chromium.org
Tue May 4 03:37:53 PDT 2021


As an update to our intent here. as posted by Xiaocheng earlier, we're
planning to ship the size-adjust descriptor
<https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-5/#size-adjust-desc>.

On Mon Feb 22 16:50:28 PST 2021 Xiaocheng Hu xiaochengh at chromium.org wrote:

Hi webkit-dev,
> This is a request for WebKit's position on a new descriptor
> 'advance-override' of the CSS @font-face rule.
> This is a new feature that the CSSWG just added into CSS Fonts Level 5 for
> reducing layout shifting caused by web fonts. Chrome has already
> implemented it in M90 behind a flag.
>


> Explainer:
> https://gist.github.com/xiaochengh/3aae8a97d1b0388c8e701819b63e2c49
> Spec: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-5/#font-metrics-override-desc
> May I assume https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/pull/5991, authored by
> Myles, as a positive signal?
> Thank you!
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