Re: [css3-fonts] low-level font features

Thomas Phinney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fonts
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Tal Leming <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
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>>>      font-feature-settings: LOLZ;
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>> Emphatically YES.
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> I thought so. Excellent. Should the spec mention this directly? It says "where ‘<feature-name>’ is the case-sensitive name of an OpenType feature defined in [OPENTYPE-FEATURES]" and points to the feature registry page. That page makes no mention of the vendor space allowance. Maybe it could say something like:
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> ... where ‘<feature-name>’ is the case-sensitive name of an OpenType feature defined in [OPENTYPE-FEATURES] or a [VENDOR SPACE TAG] as defined in the OpenType specification ...
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> [VENDOR SPACE TAG]: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/featuretags.htm.

Absolutely, yes to all the above.

And as mentioned, the risk of "feature hijacking" is real and has been
seen a fair bit in desktop fonts.

Cheers,

T

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