Once upon a specification
Lately I haven’t been in much of a blogging mood, I’m afraid. Now that I’m done with my midterms, that should change. So, I’m currently reading the CSS specification. I expected it to be boring, the equivalent of walking through a desert, but it’s actually quite interesting. One small thing I’ve already learned is that you can say “font: bold 12pt/14pt monaco” and it will set the leading to 14 points. Cool. (In typography, that’s how we specify it — 10/12 means 10 point text with 12 points of leading.) I’m sure there’s plenty of other stuff I haven’t been aware of, just waiting for me to discover it. It would be nice if they had book versions of the specs… Anyway, there are plenty of other specifications I’m excited to read now (like SVG).
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