675656 - @font-face syntax does not respect font-style or font-weight

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 530527

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Santhosh Thottingal]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0 Iceweasel/5.0
Build ID: 20110715103921

Steps to reproduce:

Wrote a page with @font-face font emebdding css with font-style, font-weight, font-size attributes. The page is here http://thottingal.in/bugs/fontface/fontface-fontsizetest.html
The used css is
 @font-face {
	    font-family: "RufScript";
	    src: url("Rufscript.ttf");
	    font-style: italic;
	    font-weight: bold;    
	    font-size: 2em;        
    }



Actual results:

http://thottingal.in/bugs/fontface/fontface-fontsizetest.html shows that none of the attributes from @font-face are getting effected. Font embedding works, but font is not bold or italic or with 2em size as given in css.


Expected results:

As per https://developer.mozilla.org/en/css/@font-face and as per http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/, @font-face css syntax should handle font-style, font-size, font-weight properties.
The syntax given at developer.mozilla.org is this
@font-face {
  font-family: <a-remote-font-name>;
  src: <source> [,<source>]*;
  [font-weight: <weight>];
  [font-style: <style>];
}
It is also mentioned in the example given there. But from my test, font-weight and font-style are not interpreted. Ofcourse I can use these properties in the style of a DIV or any other element. But as per standard, when these attributes are declared inside @fontface, it affects the default style of the font used anywhere in the page(at least that is how I understand it)

Comment 1

[j.j.]

If the embedded font does not contain certain styles, those styles can't be displayed. I'm pretty sure other browsers (Safari, Goole Chrome, Opera, ...) do the same with your font.

Comment 2

[j.j.]

See bug 530527 comment 1 for explanation.