[OpenFontLibrary] @font-face, is it really needed for font preview?

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Ed Trager wrote:
> Hi, Egil,
> 
> I and others have thought of this before too.  I think someone
> connected to SIL's Graphite project worked on something along these
> lines in order to support complex layout scripts like Burmese in the
> current crop of SVG-aware but Burmese-not-aware browsers.

TTBOMK that would be Keith Stribley (who was at the last
LGM/TextLayoutMeeting):

More details over here:
http://thanlwinsoft.org/ThanLwinSoft/MyanmarUnicode/WebDevelopers/myWebEgSvg.php

I believe the code is in the Graphite svn repository.

Ah, just saw that Daniel Glassey forwarded the info to the Graphite
mailing-list. Keith will probably get in touch.

> To write a server-side program that generates a bitmap image of text
> is fairly simple.  To write a server-side program that generates the
> SVG snippets instead is more work.  However such an SVG curve
> generator would be pretty cool because then you could scale the text
> dynamically on the client side, change colors using CSS, and generally
> have a lot of fun playing around with the SVG outlines directly on the
> client side.  So it would be quite cool if someone did it.
> 
> -- Ed

BTW, Ed, thanks again for the great work done on the server-side font
analysis + input method software!

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
Debian/Ubuntu font team / OpenFontLibrary
http://planet.open-fonts.org


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