[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 17069] New: CSS: Request for proprietary extension to generic font families 1: 'monospace'

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17069

           Summary: CSS: Request for proprietary extension to generic font
                    families 1: 'monospace'
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 525+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.5
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: CSS
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: contact at nickshanks.com


I would like the 'monospace' generic family to be seen as orthogonal to 'serif'
and 'sans-serif' in the generic font-family fallback keywords.

I envisage sites using it in this way:

code { font-family: "Consolas", monospace serif, monospace; }

Where WebKit would recognise monospace serif as meaning 'use Courier, not
Monaco'. Other browsers would look for a font called 'monospace serif', not
find one, and fall back to the generic of monospace.
WebKit would ned to be hard‐coded with lists of Monospace fonts (which I
believe it already has) but divided up into serif and sans‐serif.


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