Stretching and Adjusting Fonts
There are two font properties that appear in CSS2, but not in CSS2.1. They’ve been dropped from CSS2.1 because, despite being in the specification for years, no browser has bothered to implement either one. The first allows for the horizontal stretching of fonts, and the second allows for intelligent scaling of substituted fonts when the author’s first choice is not available. First, let’s look at stretching.
As you might expect from the value names, this property is used to
make a font’s characters fatter or skinnier. It
behaves very much like the absolute-size keywords (e.g.,
xx-large) for the font-size
property, with a range of absolute values and two values that let the
author alter a font’s stretching up or down. For
example, an author might decide to stress the text in a strongly
emphasized element by stretching the font characters to be wider than
their parent element’s font characters, as shown in
Figure 5-21:
strong {font-stretch: wider;}
Figure 5-21. Stretching font characters
Tip
Figure 5-21 was altered using Photoshop, since web
browsers do not support font-stretch as of this
writing.
The similarly unimplemented ...
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