- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:02:51 +0100
- To: Sergey Malkin <sergeym@windows.microsoft.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Sergey Malkin:
> > Any font detectives out there?
> There are three different sets of metrics in OpenType font, they
> are used separately, in combination, or with heuristics by
> different systems/applications. I tried to take Starburst and
> calculate expected rendering in case browsers use different
> metrics.
>
> Safari rendering matches "typo" and "mac" font metrics. This is
> what MacOS uses. GDI(Windows) is returning "Win" metrics, and this
> matches behavior of two other browsers. If browser is using
> whatever is provided by font system on hosting OS, this would
> explain difference in its behavior on Windows and Mac.
Thank you, Sergey, you're a wonderful detective!
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Monday, 3 November 2008 22:03:32 UTC