From htl10 at users.sourceforge.net  Mon Feb 12 21:38:53 2024
From: htl10 at users.sourceforge.net (Hin-Tak Leung)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:38:53 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: switching on OT-SVG support in QT WebEngine
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Hi - everybody who uses QT WebEngine,

I submitted the patches for switching on OT-SVG support in QT WebEngine, and the developer would like some use cases etc. So here is the chance to have your view heard.

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-120543

Background:

QT4 used webkit, but QT5 and QT6 switched to a slimmed down chromium derivative code based called WebEngine. So they lost the decade-long OT-SVG support from webkit (and firefox). Google folks have been pushing their own "rich color format" COLRv1 for a while, and wouldn't implement it in chrome. Until mid-2021, they added it, but left it disabled. It is a one-liner addition to switch it on, plus other small additions in the area of "not ignoring/dropping unknown font formats" elsewhere.