SPICING UP YOUR FONTS AND TEXT - Practical CSS3: Develop and Design - page 93

CSS3 TYPOGRAPHY

Let's turn our attention to the typographic control features detailed in the CSS3
Fonts module that's starting to become available across browsers. The following
features are not available everywhere yet, but I'm including them because none of
them will cause any major disruption in browsers that don't support them. You'll
also get to see some attractive flourishes in browsers that do! It is a breath of fresh
air to start to see web browsers directly supporting the advanced features con-
tained inside font files, although some would say it is long overdue. Table 3.3 shows
browser support for the font features discussed in this section.

TAB LE 3.3 Browser Support Matrix for CSS3 Text Features

BROWSER TEXT-RENDERING:

OPTIMIZELEGIBILITY

FONT-FEATURE-SETTINGS

Opera No No

Firefox Since 8 Since 8 with -moz-

Safari Since 5.1 No

Chrome Since 13 Since 17 with -webkit-, only

on Windows

Internet Explorer Since 10 Since 10 with -ms-*

iOS No No

Android No No

Chrome Mobile Since beta No

Opera Mobile No No

Opera Mini No No

*IE10 platform preview 6 saw the prefix removed

NOTE: Other properties inside the CSS3 Fonts module support program-
matic creation and control of features like ligatures and kerning, but none
of them seem to have any concrete browser support at the time of this
writing (a recent Chrome Beta has support for font-variant-ligatures
and font-kerning ). At least this section of the chapter can act as a
taster for things to come.