- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:59:15 -0800
- To: Andrew Cunningham <lang.support@gmail.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Andrew Cunningham <lang.support@gmail.com> wrote: > Firefox provides no UI to switch graphite support on and off. Why do you need to switch it off? Per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700023 it has been enabled by default for a while now. > An added complication is that some of the graphite fonts I use > are both graphite and opentype fonts with the graphite support being both > more flexible and more powerful than the openrype implementations. > > Unfortunately the CSS folks chose to only support opentype fonts explicitly > in the font modules. Some rules will work others will not. > > It is pot luck whether graphite is supported or unsupported. There is > nothing the web developer can do. > > They have no control. > > Maybe the CSS cascade can be used to provide both rules for opentype and > graphite features. But such an approach is problematic and awkward. Sounds like we need more tests. > The reality is that the browser developers choose what they want to > implement. There are lots of useful and crucial components in CSS that have > not been implemented or widely implemented. > Both Firefox and blink use hb-ng. So both could use graphite shapers, but > blink developers are not interested. > > Come to think of it, hb-ng is far from up to date in blink. > > There is a reluctance to address these issuses within specs, and there is a > reluctance to extend multilingual web support among web developers. > > At the moment guidelines are being developed here for the development and > deployment of multilingual government information. Some of the languages our > government publishes in are languages that either need pseudo-unicode fonts > or graphite Unicode fonts. > > I am really tempted to take your comments at face value and make a > recomendation that government websites in our juristIction only support > Firefox. > > Begs the question should governments do that. > > If it was one website... or a small community.... maybe.... > > But... even Firefox has a fair way to go before it is an ideal tool for > multilingual web typography. If nobody starts using graphite fonts, Blink will not have a reason to support it. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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