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by asimuvPR 3643 days ago
This is baffling. How could something as important as font rendering not be fixed?
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JupiterMoon 3643 days ago
Probably because everyone at MS uses MS products and they all have calibri installed...
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DHowett 3642 days ago
Equally baffling is that quotes, which should simply demarcate regions within which special characters are ignored, have special semantic meaning to a CSS parser.

That narrative, however, isn't one for which we can blame Microsoft.

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icebraining 3642 days ago
I don't agree, one is a string, the other is a symbol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(programming)
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pritambaral 3642 days ago
They don't have special semantic meaning to CSS the spec. Quotes are needed[0] only if the <family-name> value has whitespace in it.

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/font-family#Va...

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icebraining 3642 days ago
They have special meaning since "generic family names (...) must not be quoted".
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