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Bug 10094 - hello there. if the given context.font string has: "12px/2", shouldnt the evaluated string have "6px"? Otherwise I don't understand what the "/2" means.
Summary: hello there. if the given context.font string has: "12px/2", shouldnt the eva...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML Canvas 2D Context (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-07-06 01:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-05 12:59 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-07-06 01:51:41 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#dom-context-2d-font

Comment:
hello there. if the given context.font string has: "12px/2", shouldnt the
evaluated string have "6px"? Otherwise I don't understand what the "/2" means.

Posted from: 68.125.48.81
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2010-07-06 08:07:43 UTC 
/2 is the line-height.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#font-shorthand