SVG OT Animation: Firefox impl, a webapp, demo video, Adobe gallery

It is my distinct pleasure (not having done any of the work myself!) to
report:

1. Firefox now supports SVG OT animations.
- Many thanks to Rob O'Callahan
- Unified Mozilla­Adobe proposal supported
- Experimental builds only right now:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/try-builds/rocallahan@mozill
a.com-3354d4190694/

2. A cool new web app, with instant preview, for creating SVG OT fonts.
- Open an existing OT font, create/edit an SVG table document, see the
results on (editable) sample text. Updated on every keystroke! Save the
modified font.
- Thanks again to Rob O'Callahan.
- Give it a whirl: https://github.com/rocallahan/svg-opentype-workshop

3. Here's a demo of using this web app:
http://people.mozilla.com/~roc/animated-SVG-glyphs.webm
- Watch the bouncing dot on the "i"!

And, as already reported by David Lemon of the Adobe Type team, here's
some proof-of-concept animated SVG glyph artwork (no emoji this time!) to
stimulate ideas and discussion:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/type/svgopentype.html. Expect it to be
extended with more examples in the future.

We are now truly in a position to play with SVG OT and see what else is
needed to finesse the technology.

Sairus

Received on Wednesday, 21 August 2013 01:56:09 UTC