Re: Minutes of Math on the Web Community Group teleconference of 27 April 2016

On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 13:09 -0400, Jeanne Spellman wrote:
> 
>     Ivan: [...]
>     ... there is a project in CSS -- Houdini -- that may be of
>     interest to those who were interested in the font issue.

I'm sorry I wasn't able to be on the call, and delighted to see the
minutes!

A minor note -- houdini isn't about fonts. It's about opening up the
browser to deeper scripting so that e.g. you can have an element whose
contents are drawing using JavaScript automatically on demand, without
the huge expense (and sometimes impossibility) of today's polyflls.

We'll probably see custom element backgrounds first (since they don't
affect block layout).

The big question is how to make such custom-drawn content accessible.

Liam

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Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2016 21:44:14 UTC