Re: canvas text: web fonts

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:

> For an interactive game, it seems more useful to show the fallback font
> than no text at all, which rules out throwing.
>
> For a static graph, you would either want to draw twice: once with the
> fallback font, and once again when the font has loaded; or you would want to
> draw once when the font has loaded.
>
> In order for a Web page to know when a font has loaded, we probably need to
> introduce an event that is fired when a web font has loaded, or make web
> font loading delay the load event, or both.
>

In Gecko, font loads delay the load event. However, only font loads that are
actually needed delay the load event. If you set up a @font-face rule but
don't actually use that family (or the family would only be used for
fallback, and fallback is not triggered), then the load event is not
delayed.

I think that drawing text to the canvas that uses a not-fully-loaded font
should actually throw, so script can detect it. When the font is fully
loaded then a "fontloaded" event should fire at the canvas, so script can
redraw the text.

Rob
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