Re: Fwd: SVG Fonts

On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 5:34:04 AM, Robert wrote:

ROC> On 8/09/09 4:14 AM, Felipe Sanches wrote:
>> But while geeks dont get a working playground with full SVG fonts
>> support in order to tinker with it, we´ll probably not have too much
>> innovative uses of this tech.

ROC> Other SVG UAs apparently support the full SVG fonts spec already, so 
ROC> there is nothing stopping people coming up with innovative uses for it.

ROC> I'm reluctant to add SVG Fonts to Gecko and acquiesce to having them be
ROC> an essential part of the Web platform forever just so that people can 
ROC> play with them to see if they're useful.

To be clear - they already are useful and already are used. However, content tends to break in Mozilla because they are not supported, so a fallback font is used with greater or lesser breakage in terms of design intent and legibility.


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