- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:15:42 +0100
- To: "Glenn A. Adams" <glenn@xfsi.com>
- CC: Johnb@screen.subtitling.com, public-tt@w3.org
Glenn A. Adams wrote: > I would personally like to see us provide some sort of support > for downloadable fonts. I see the lack of such support to be > a barrier to internationalization as well as service for minority > communities in markets where the default fonts would otherwise > not support their needs. On the other hand, I admit that requiring > a font rasterizer in every device would be a significant burden > for some non-trivial set of devices, and, therefore, we can't > mandate in all cases. At least we should provide support through > the content for either inline font representations or for reference > to out-of-line font representations. [sorry if the above is strangely formatted, conversion from HTML mail does that sometimes] Couldn't we use SVG fonts here? It would seem to be a perfect fit for the task. SVG Basic and Tiny define a subset of the font capabilities[1] that have been shown to be suitable to constrained devices. [1]http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile/#sec-fonts -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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