[Mapcss] Proposed attribute: font-variant

[Richard Fairhurst]

Sebastian Spaeth wrote:

> I just added this to the talk section of mapcss 0.2:
> I would like to propose the font-variant attribute:
>
>    font-variant: normal|small-caps
>
> What is the "procedure" for adding that to the specs. I don't want to
> step on anyones toes here.

For now, I think the best thing for anything fairly uncontroversial  
(like that) is to add it to the draft specs and announce it here.  
We'll hash out the final spec on this list later.

I was going to write a brief message outlining the philosophy (FWIW)  
of MapCSS, but might as well summarise it here:

- be CSS-like
- but not dogmatically so: if shadowing the original CSS spec would  
vastly overcomplicate things, don't. Keep it simple!
- be informed by the vocabulary of previous attempts (Cascadenik,  
Mapnik XML, etc.)
- degrade gracefully - it's fine if clients don't support absolutely  
everything

cheers
Richard