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Bug 17506 - Incorrect syntax for 'font-family'
Summary: Incorrect syntax for 'font-family'
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: CSS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: CSS Level 2 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bert Bos
QA Contact: public-css-bugzilla
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Reported: 2012-06-16 10:30 UTC by Anton P
Modified: 2012-06-16 10:31 UTC (History)
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Description Anton P 2012-06-16 10:30:01 UTC 
Reported by Øyvind Stenhaug

15.3 (Font family: the 'font-family' property) says:

  # 'font-family'
  #     Value: [ [ <family-name> | <generic-family> ]
  #              [, <family-name>| <generic-family>]*
  #            ] | inherit

This is incorrect, since any instance of <generic-family> in the middle or end of the list will not get an immediately-preceding comma.

It should be:

  |     Value: [ [ <family-name> | <generic-family> ]
  |              [, [ <family-name> | <generic-family> ] ]*
  |            ] | inherit

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Proposal:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0414.html
Comment 1 Anton P 2012-06-16 10:31:56 UTC 
The WG resolved to accept the proposal: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0887.html