Today the most common use of CSS is for styling text: color, size, bold, underline... The property 'font' gives you the ability to specify many of those common text-styling techniques, but includes rarely-used properties like font-variant while leaving out a really frequently used ones like text-decoration.
Do you think that the property 'font' has been a failure? It has probably the most complex syntax of all CSS1 properties and according to my research on CSS usage is used even less than z-index and float.
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Today the most common use of CSS is for styling text: color, size, bold, underline... The property 'font' gives you the ability to specify many of those common text-styling techniques, but includes rarely-used properties like font-variant while leaving out a really frequently used ones like text-decoration.
Do you think that the property 'font' has been a failure? It has probably the most complex syntax of all CSS1 properties and according to my research on CSS usage is used even less than z-index and float.