3371 - should support CSS2 system fonts

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, enhancement, P1)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Support for CSS2 system fonts would be nice.  These allow fonts from the user's
UI to be specified.

See also bug 1004, relating to system colors.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

In bug 1004, [e-mail] write:
> The list of font values in the spec is rather restrictive; controlling fonts
> in various places in the UI will probably require a few more values.
>
> All the dialog work is dependent on this, in the sense that dialog layout
> cannot be finalized until we can display the correct fonts. I would thus
> hope that this could be moved to M5 or M6 if possible.

Setting severity/priority to enhancement/P1. This is an RFE but is required
for the UI stuff.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Testcase for this: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/css/test/sec1803

Comment 3

[Peter Linss]

Moving non-beta 1 items to M15

Comment 4

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Reassigning peterl's bugs to myself.

Comment 5

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Accepting peterl's bugs that have a Target Milestone

Comment 6

[Pierre Saslawsky]

More work needs to be done in MapDeclarationFontInto(). The nsCSSFont.mFamily is
correctly set (look for NS_STYLE_FONT_CAPTION ... NS_STYLE_FONT_STATUS_BAR in
nsStyleConst.h) but not the nsStyleFont->mFont.name.

Comment 7

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Note that CSS3's UI >>draft<< spec introduces a lot of new fonts as well,
namlely:

   window | document | workspace | desktop | info |
   dialog | button | pull-down-menu | list | field

See http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-userint for the latest draft.

Comment 8

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Pushing my M15 bugs to M16

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Migrating from {css2} to css2 keyword. The {css1}, {css2}, {css3} and {css-moz}
radars should now be considered deprecated in favour of keywords.
I am *really* sorry about the spam...

Comment 10

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Attachment: minimal testcase

Comment 11

[Pierre Saslawsky]

It's fixed in XP code and on the Mac. I opened separate bug reports for Windows 
(bug 33312) and Unix (bug 33313). The dependencies will be updated.

Comment 12

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Attachment: same testcase in strict mode, to compare with MacIE5

Comment 13

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Netscape's standard compliance QA team reorganised itself once again, so taking 
remaining non-tables style bugs. Sorry about the spam. I tried to get this done 
directly at the database level, but apparently that is "not easy because of the 
shadow db", "plus it screws up the audit trail", so no can do...

Comment 14

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

verified (on Mac) that we do something for each of the fonts.