14253 2011-09-22 21:08:53 +0000 Add new fontSize variant that accepts pt/px/etc. instead of legacy values 2012-12-04 00:54:47 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG HISTORICAL - HTML Editing APIs unspecified All Windows 3.1 NEW P2 enhancement --- 1 ayg ayg annevk ehsan mike public-webapps sideshowbarker+html-editing-api oldest_to_newest 57186 0 ayg 2011-09-22 21:08:53 +0000 See discussion in bug 14251. It seems like a straightforward and very useful addition. Users want to control font size in conventional units like pt, not numbers 1-7. That's a constraint that dates back to the fact that when these APIs were first invented, <font size> was the only way to control size . . . We want it to only accept absolute units: in, cm, mm, pt, pc, px. I suggest that queryCommandValue() always return pt values, like "12pt" or such, with floating-point allowed. This way the unit is consistent. What shall we call it? fontSizeAbsolute is the first thing that comes to mind, but it's a terrible name. Any suggestions? Also, Ryosuke, do you think this is a good idea too? Ehsan said he did, in bug 14251. 57254 1 ehsan 2011-09-23 19:27:03 +0000 Another name could be fontSizeCss, which is what they are, really. But I really don't care about the name too much. 57255 2 ayg 2011-09-23 19:33:36 +0000 It will only support a few types of CSS length, though, not arbitrary values. 57328 3 annevk 2011-09-26 07:32:37 +0000 Currently CSSOM recommends serializing to px. I'm not sure what implementations will align on though in the end. 57436 4 ayg 2011-09-27 19:27:24 +0000 All implementations use px for getComputedStyle(), but I think the new execCommand should return values in pt, because that's what users expect for font sizes. They're the same anyway except for multiplication by a constant. 57452 5 annevk 2011-09-27 21:57:59 +0000 Users expect pt? What is that based on? 57485 6 ayg 2011-09-28 18:51:05 +0000 For WYSIWYG editors? Can you find me one that *doesn't* use pt for font size? LibreOffice doesn't even bother specifying a unit, it just has "11" and "12" and so on. At least for English -- is it different in metric countries? I just tried changing my UI language for Google Docs to Hebrew, and it's still pt. Actually, I think fontSizePt would be a good name for the command. We can just ignore the unit entirely and make it exclusively pt.