Re: Fwd: SVG Fonts

I just read what I wrote, and it reads like a miserly criticism of the state
of browsers.  I don't feel that way.  Truth is, I think that it's totally
cool that browsers today can do what they do.  Thanks for the effort, maybe
you could do SVG fonts?  :)

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Rick <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Well, yeah, you can.  But you don't embed the encoding in the document, and
> therefore you do not control the geometry.
>
> So, there is an issue here  about bandwidth and document size.
>
> If you can get away without specifying the exact font, SVG, via CSS allows
> ways for you to try to pick the best font for an OS/browser.  You can
> provide a list that will iterate through your choices, but eventually, given
> total failure, will drop down to the default font for the browser.  Which
> differs for different OS/browser combinatons.   If you can dictate the the
> OS/browser, fonts are not an issue.  Narrow audience though.  If we had wide
> adoption of stadard fonts, so that "font family" would have a chance of
> sucess across browsers, that would help.  That has been attempted with web
> fonts (and I may need education here) but I don't see that happenning.
>
> I really don't understand why more engines do not implement SVG fonts.  You
> have text metrics, you have path.  That will solve 99% of all requirements
> and provide an excellent test bed to implement the rest.
>
> Sorry, but we did this at BitFlash ~7 years ago.  In fact Chris demoed
> dynamic flowing SVG text for BitFlash in Zurich in 2002? on an IPaq. (Ask
> him)  It's not that hard.
>
> (Rick shuts up)
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On 7/09/09 1:53 PM, Rick wrote:
>>
>>> Mostly because you can provide exact geometry for the whole page, and not
>>> worry about the registration of the text.  Because you provide it.  But
>>> also, if you like, you can do a lot of cool things with a font that you
>>> design.
>>>
>>
>> But you can do these things with Truetype/Opentype fonts as well. Right?
>> (In fact you can do more since you can have a proper shaping engine,
>> hinting, etc.)
>>
>>
>> Rob
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>
>
> --
> Cheers!
> Rick
>
>


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Cheers!
Rick