Re: who can I talk to?

Hi all,

Jeremie Patonnier wrote:
> I'm as confused as you are. As far as I know, SVG has absolutely no
> hinting capabilities and I'm not aware of any plan about this within the
> upcoming SVG 2 standard.
>
> I'm CC'ing Cameron McCormack (SVG Co-Chair) and Edwin Flores (Who
> implement SVG in OpenType in FF) as well as the Mozilla SVG ML. Those
> people are the best to help us figure this out.

J=E9r=E9mie is correct; SVG does not have any hinting capabilities, and we =

don't have any current plans within the Working Group to add such =

functionality to SVG itself, although there have been some requests for =

this.

Regarding the SVG-in-OpenType proposal, we decided that with increasing =

display resolutions causing hinting to become less relevant, and given =

the uses cases for SVG-in-OpenType tending more towards logos and =

display text rather than body text, that we would not add a way to map =

OpenType hinting to <path>s within the SVG glyph definitions.

There has been a proposal (which I need to write up) to allow SVG =

documents to adapt to the zoom level that they are rendered at, via a =

media query.  This was intended to be used for level-of-detail control, =

but it could allow simplistic switching of paths used in glyphs rendered =

at different resolutions.  Still, this is not something supported by the =

language today.