Bug 17069 – CSS: Request for proprietary extension to generic font families 1: 'monospace'

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: CSS

[Nicholas Shanks]

I would like the 'monospace' generic family to be seen as orthogonal to 'serif' and 'sans-serif' in the generic font-family fallback keywords.

I envisage sites using it in this way:

code { font-family: "Consolas", monospace serif, monospace; }

Where WebKit would recognise monospace serif as meaning 'use Courier, not Monaco'. Other browsers would look for a font called 'monospace serif', not find one, and fall back to the generic of monospace.
WebKit would ned to be hard‐coded with lists of Monospace fonts (which I believe it already has) but divided up into serif and sans‐serif.

[Brent Fulgham]

This idea should be discussed in the relevant CSS working group.

[Myles C. Maxfield]

Right, Brent is right. The correct place to request this feature is at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/new