- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:23:10 -0400
- To: www-svg@w3.org
On 10/23/11 12:36 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > On 23/10/11 12:24 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: >> What's the question being asked? > > The question is whether it is acceptable for implementations to return > different path data from this API for the same font/text being rendered. The alternative is to embed a definition of all the details of shaping, kerning, etc, etc, in the spec, yes? And then wait for UAs to actually implement it all. Assuming they want to. Or restrict the API to font formats that don't support any of that stuff, of course. But that makes it unusable for some text, of course. A related question: what are the actual use cases for the API? Is compatibility of the metrics returned with actual text rendering by the browser important, say? If so, then you can't require path data uniformity, since browsers do not in fact render things identically. -Boris
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