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Bug 18126 - Contrary to the CSS Fonts spec, <font size=1> maps to font-size: x-small in browsers, not xx-small. Tested in mozilla-central, Chrome 20 dev, Opera Next 12.00 alpha, IE10 Developer Preview: <!doctype html> <span style="font-size:xx-small">xx-small</span>
Summary: Contrary to the CSS Fonts spec, <font size=1> maps to font-size: x-small in b...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:22 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-14 04:56 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:22:07 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 16825 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-04-23 12:17:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-04-23 12:17:28 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#phrasing-content-1
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#phrasing-content-1

Comment:
Contrary to the CSS Fonts spec, <font size=1> maps to font-size: x-small in
browsers, not xx-small.  Tested in mozilla-central, Chrome 20 dev, Opera Next
12.00 alpha, IE10 Developer Preview: <!doctype html> <span
style="font-size:xx-small">xx-small</span> <font size=1>1</font> <span
style="font-size:x-small">x-small</span>

Posted from: 79.179.221.246
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/536.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1096.1 Safari/536.6
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Comment 1 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-09-14 04:56:12 UTC 
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   Status: Accepted
   Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/b341d750ad7650e15d072541388c75020164c366
   Rationale: accepted WHATWG fix