[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 13139] Font not inherited when font-family does not match a font.

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13139





------- Comment #14 from jungshik.shin at gmail.com  2008-09-12 10:47 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #8)

Sorry for getting tangential. 

> Clearly the author's intent with Monaco is to use a monospace font.  Using the
> parent's family isn't going to yield the result the author intended, nor is
> using "serif."  If the author leaves off a generic family, it's really up to
> the browser to try to infer the intent of the author.  

> Using the parent is just a heuristic and a poor one at that.  We choose "serif"
> on the assumption that a majority of the fonts specified on the Web are
> "serif", and so that maximizes the probability that we will be right.

As for 'serif' being the majority, it's not the case everywhere. CJK users
prefer sans-serif to serif. I filed bug 20797 about adding a preference/UI to
control this. 


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