Intent to Ship: Consistent minimum font size across languages

[Koji Ishii]

Contact emails

ko...@chromium.org

Specification

None

Design docs

https://docs.google.com/document/d/180f-ex4Nj11lExg80ziZZ8Bc-LxQU6B9wY-WEZksLM0/edit?usp=sharing

Summary

Changes the default setting for the “Minimum font size” to be off by default for 7 languages (Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Simplified and Traditional Chinese) to improve the interoperability and the accessibility. Before this change, this setting is off by default for all languages except the 7 languages. This change makes these languages consistent with other languages. Note, this is not about changing the “Minimum font size” feature itself. It will be available without any changes for the accessibility and for readability.

Blink component

Blink>Fonts

TAG review

None

TAG review status

Not applicable

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

None

Gecko: Shipped/Shipping

WebKit: Shipped/Shipping

Web developers: Positive (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1195041#c13)

https://github.com/vivliostyle/vivliostyle.js/issues/673 (Japanese)

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

None

Debuggability

None

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?

Yes

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

No

Flag name on chrome://flags

None

Finch feature name

None

Non-finch justification

None

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1469490

Estimated milestones

Shipping on desktop

118

Shipping on Android

118

Shipping on WebView

118

Anticipated spec changes

Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of the API in a non-backward-compatible way).

None

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5150487577362432

This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status.

[Daniel Bratell]

LGTM1

/Daniel

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[Mike Taylor]

LGTM2

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[Chris Harrelson]

LGTM3 

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