Re: Re: What am I overlooking?

It wouldn't just be in svg.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxm22/unsupported.html

Jerry

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Robert Longson <[email protected]>wrote:

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> > The only way I could get text to scale properly to a viewBox (and hence
> to scale in a device-independent way) for most of the examples at
> http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/text/ was to set textLength
> and use lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs" Firefox, seems to be lagging quite
> behind in its support of the advanced text handling features of SVG1.1
> which is why, I gather, they are recommending that support for text, at
> least in the form of SVG fonts be dropped from SVG2.0, in the name of
> progress, I suppose. It remains to be seen if all other aspects of advanced
> text handling will be dropped from SVG. Part of it, I gather, is that the
> HTML CSS crowd have discovered how cool SVG effects are and they want to
> apply them to HTML even if it means trashing SVG in the process. I suppose
> some, but not all members of the SVG WG might have reason to disagree with
> my pessimism.
> >
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> It's true that Firefox is lagging behind with some text features. That has
> nothing to do with why we're not doing SVG fonts.
>
> SVG Fonts only support some of the world's languages. Those supported
> languages happen to include the one that you prefer to use - English. If
> your generally used Hindi for reading/writing you would be asking why you
> can't use SVG Fonts at all even in the UAs that support them rather than
> advocating that more UAs support something you just can't use.
>
> Robert.
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