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Reported by Tab Atkins Jr. 15.3 (Font family: the 'font-family' property) says: # 'font-family' # Value: [ [ <family-name> | <generic-family> ] # [, <family-name>| <generic-family>]* ] # | inherit # [...] # # Font family names that happen to be the same as a keyword # value ('inherit', 'serif', 'sans-serif', 'monospace', # 'fantasy', and 'cursive') must be quoted to prevent # confusion with the keywords with the same names. The # keywords 'initial' and 'default' are reserved for future # use and must also be quoted when used as font names. UAs # must not consider these keywords as matching the '<family-name>' type. It's not clear what "these keywords" refers back to. Certainly, we require that 'inherit' does not match the '<font-family>' type. Conversation begins: Bug description: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Apr/0638.html
Initial WG decision: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0063.html Follow-up: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0065.html Summary: the decision was unclear!
Proposal thread begins: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0630.html WG discussion, and resolution to come up with final wording on the public mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0887.html Proposal A: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0852.html Proposal B (slight editorial modification of Proposal A): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/1182.html (last part)
Proposal A seems to have been chosen; it has been added to the Errata doc at http://www.w3.org/Style/css2-updates/REC-CSS2-20110607-errata.html