Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-inline] Consistent vertical positioning of large and medium-sized text across OSs from Myles C. Maxfield via GitHub on 2018-04-10 (public-css-archive@w3.org from April 2018)

From: Myles C. Maxfield via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:16:54 +0000
To: public-css-archive@w3.org
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> I need a way to ensure that the glyphs in medium/large text get placed in the same position, regarding the x-axis and regarding the y-axis, in all browsers on all OSs on all devices.

This is undesirable. Browsers shouldn’t be required to have exactly compatible shaping engines and rendering engines. Consider a browser that is bundled with the OS - such a browser shouldn’t have to include its own independent shaping engine and font rasterizer that are only used for that browser (for reasons of binary size, performance, and correctness). There is industry competition in text engines, which is only possible if browsers have the freedom to innovate.

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