[whatwg] Need document.available_fonts() call

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon May 10 21:25:12 PDT 2010


On Mon, 10 May 2010, JustFillBug wrote:
> 
> There should be a way to fetch available font to use in the document. 
> Currently, the only popular way is to use Flash calls.
> 
> document.available_fonts() or document.local_font_list() will be very 
> useful.

Whether this would be useful or not I'm not sure, but in either case, 
that's a features for the CSSOM, not HTML. I recommend bringing this up on 
the CSS list (www-style at w3.org).

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