LGTM2 On Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 5:34:43 PM UTC+2 Mike Taylor wrote:
> LGTM1 > On 8/18/26 4:40 a.m., 'Dominik Röttsches' via blink-dev wrote: > > I strongly support shipping this. Thanks, Michael, for working on this and > going through the I2S process. > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 3:44 AM Michael Reeves < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks! I’ve now completed the questionnaires and requested or >> self-certified the Privacy, Security, Enterprise, Debuggability, >> Testing, and Adoption gates as appropriate in ChromeStatus. >> >> I’ve also updated the expected shipping milestone to 154, since M153 >> has already branched. >> >> Please let me know if anything else is needed. >> >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 5:33 AM Alex Russell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Can you please request the Privacy, Debuggability, Testing, etc. >> reviews via chromestatus.com? Thank you. >> > >> > On Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 9:46:15 PM UTC-7 Chromestatus wrote: >> >> >> >> Contact emails >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> Specification >> >> https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#font-width-prop >> >> >> >> Summary >> >> Exposes the width attribute on FontFace and the @font-face font-width >> descriptor as aliases for stretch and font-stretch. Aligns Chromium with >> the updated CSS Font Loading and CSS Fonts 4 specifications. Developers can >> now inspect or initialize font face widths using FontFace.width and CSS >> font-width interchangeably with stretch and font-stretch. >> >> >> >> Blink component >> >> Blink>CSS >> >> >> >> Web Feature ID >> >> font-width >> >> >> >> Motivation >> >> CSS Font Loading and CSS Fonts 4 define width as the primary FontFace >> descriptor attribute and @font-face descriptor, while retaining stretch as >> a legacy alias. Chromium previously ignored the width constructor member >> and font-width descriptor, causing Web Platform Tests to fail. Exposing >> width aligns Chromium with the updated specification. >> >> >> >> Initial public proposal >> >> No information provided >> >> >> >> TAG review >> >> Not needed - Small spec-alignment bug fix. >> >> >> >> TAG review status >> >> Not applicable >> >> >> >> Goals for experimentation >> >> None >> >> >> >> Risks >> >> >> >> >> >> Interoperability and Compatibility >> >> Low risk. Fixes failing Web Platform Tests and aligns Chromium with >> the updated CSS Font Loading and CSS Fonts 4 specifications. >> >> >> >> Gecko: Shipped/Shipping ( >> https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-font-loading/font-face-width-descriptor-aliasing.html) >> >> Firefox passes the test. >> >> >> >> WebKit: No signal >> >> >> >> Web developers: No signals >> >> >> >> 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. It is strictly additive aliasing for existing stretch >> functionality. >> >> >> >> >> >> Debuggability >> >> No special DevTools debugging support required. Standard CSS >> descriptor inspection applies. >> >> >> >> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, >> Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)? >> >> Yes >> >> Supported in Blink CSS core. >> >> >> >> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests? >> >> Yes >> >> >> https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-font-loading/font-face-width-descriptor-aliasing.html >> >> >> >> Flag name on about://flags >> >> No information provided >> >> >> >> Finch feature name >> >> No information provided >> >> >> >> Non-finch justification >> >> Waterfall rollout without Finch flag. >> >> >> >> Rollout plan >> >> Will ship enabled for all users >> >> >> >> Requires code in //chrome? >> >> False >> >> >> >> Tracking bug >> >> https://issues.chromium.org/issues/543938492 >> >> >> >> Measurement >> >> None >> >> >> >> Availability expectation >> >> Feature is available on Web Platform Baseline within 12 months of >> launch in Chrome. >> >> >> >> Adoption expectation >> >> Feature is considered a best practice for configuring font face width >> descriptors within 12 months of reaching Web Platform baseline. >> >> >> >> Adoption plan >> >> Web Platform Tests (WPT) have been added to ensure cross-browser >> interoperability. MDN documentation will be updated to reflect >> FontFace.width as the standard descriptor. >> >> >> >> Non-OSS dependencies >> >> >> >> Does the feature depend on any code or APIs outside the Chromium open >> source repository and its open-source dependencies to function? >> >> >> >> No >> >> >> >> Estimated milestones >> >> Shipping on desktop153 >> >> Shipping on Android153 >> >> Shipping on WebView153 >> >> >> >> >> >> 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/5145402365050880?gate=5525688097570816 >> >> >> >> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "blink-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CANpmGNsUfzFBSSnR1Ob08m5QrF4-h%3DMPYLeh3d-tMGkfEzsgxg%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "blink-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAN6muBufUCPTYFThb%2BHxNPwYYqhNfHRFd_6Q%3DyG%2B4sYK1KN6eQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAN6muBufUCPTYFThb%2BHxNPwYYqhNfHRFd_6Q%3DyG%2B4sYK1KN6eQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. 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