Sent by Pauline Caldwell on 19 May 2003 19:07
> The first test looks at an Opera bug whereby numerals and punctuation
> characters are considered "lower case" for the purpose of font-
> variant:small-caps
>
This isn't a bug in Opera, it's correct typographic behaviour. Lower
case (generally called 'old style') figures are the typographically
correct figures to use when placing figures in lower case text. Small
caps are upper case glyphs drawn to lower case size, therefore the
figures that go with small caps should also be lower case, because the
flow of the text is disrupted if 'upper case' figures (lining figures)
are used.
I believe that Opera's behaviour is also correct according to the CSS2
spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font-variant. The
browsers that don't exhibit that behaviour, are the buggy ones, IMHO :-)
Pauline.
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