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font-stretch was originally excluded from font shorthand because the shorthand syntax was very fragile and editors were concerned about adding anything to it. John Daggett to look into whether it's still a problem, and see if it can be added.local() being underdefined, seem to have agreement on copying quoting conventions of font-family property.font-kerning property to have three values:
autonormalnoneborder-clip property shifted from GCPM to CSS4 Backgrounds and Borders draft.image-fit and image-position to object-fit and object-position since SVGWG considers the former ill-suited to their use.auto height. Since this would be backwards-incompatible, it seems likely this will be used for the fill keyword instead.env() date values changed to local-date, local-time, and local-date-time since they are the system date/time formatted according to the system locale.border-clip property moved from GCPM to CSS4 Backgrounds and Bordersall-small-caps and all-petite-caps were neededall-small-caps/all-petite-caps feature should be triggered by text-transform: lowercase + font-variant: small-caps/petite-capspetite-caps fallback should be lowercase letters, synthesized petite-caps, or small-capscharacter-transform proposal (draft) and how to handle stacked superscripts or subscripts. Steve Zilles outlined a proposal to address this by the parent's font size to substitute or synthesize the appropriate glyph.font-size-adjust: auto, which would give font-size-adjust the value of the ex-height of the user's default font, providing an easy way to introduce ex-height calibration and a way to more accurately match the user's effective default font size for bicameral scripts.ident+ syntax for unquoted font-family names within the CSSWG, but SVGWG also needs to be consulted.fixed background is fixed with respect to the page box and is therefore replicated on every page."bolder and lighter values of font-weight from CSS3 Fonts draft into CSS2.1.font-weight section pull bullet 4 (hole-mapping) out of bulleted list and replace "typical mappings" from the sentence below it with "this mapping" to make hole-mapping rules normative.height on table cell should be a minimum height for the row, not a minimum height for an anonymous box wrapped around the cell's contents. dbaron to write proposed wording.content-box value to background-clip.background-origin and background-clip in shorthand using [ border-box | padding-box | content-box ]{1,2} where one value sets both, two sets origin then clip.<bg-position> [/ <bg-size>].box-shadow back to CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders module.env() content function to return data about user's environment such as the file location and the current date/time. Discussion continues on Wednesday.url() syntax definition to match grammar, specifically, drop the requirement to escape commas since implementations don't require it and existing pages depend on that.a and n in an+b for :nth-child(). Comments and spaces allowed at other (token) boundaries.// comments in CSS—nice to have, but too late to add. See follow-up comments on mailing list for why introducing this would be actively harmful.margin-top is always the top margin even in other writing-modes.