31735 - setting the presentation context's default font

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Tracking, defect, P3)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

The is a metabug for tracking the issue of setting the default font of the
presentation context, based on user preferences.

We need to set the presentation context's default font to the font that the
user has selected as the "Normal Font". In CSS terms, we should be emulating:

  :root { font: <size>px "<font-name>", <generic-name>; }

...where:

   <size> is the size in pixels selected by the user,
   <font-name> is the name of the default font selected by the user,
   <generic-name> is the CSS generic font-family which <font-name> would match.

What the five CSS generic font families actually map to is currently left
undefined as far as the UI is concerned, that issue is not covered by this bug.

Comment 1

[Erik van der Poel]

Maybe I'll get to this for M17.

Comment 2

[Erik van der Poel]

The font prefs UI doesn't have a "Normal Font", nor does it seem likely that we
will do anything about this in the near future.

The presentation context currently gets its default font from the "font.default"
pref, which is already implemented in the font prefs UI (serif vs sans-serif).

Marking this bug Future.

Comment 3

[Frank Tang]

erik resign. reassign all his bug to ftang for now.

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

mark all future new as assigned after move from erik to ftang

Comment 5

[Frank Tang]

tracking bug go 1.1

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

move all my "tracking" bug to "M1"

Comment 7

[Frank Tang]

this tracking bug lost it's meaning. mark it as wontfix