RE: Announcing new font compression project - lossy vs gappy
Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:13:28 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.fonts |
|---|---|
| Organization | W3C - World Wide Web Consortium |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Better compression is good, and the best compression is not sending something at all, that's 100% of course! I'd like to see some thought given to programmatic access to font data e.g. via a JavaScript/ECMAScript API or via DOM, so that Web applications can add or change glyphs on the fly. Not sure how implementable that would be, but it might enable (for example) using xhttprequest to fetch missing glyphs asynchronously. If you use multiple fonts you can't have cross-font ligatures or kerning so easily, more important for some scripts than others. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml