- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 22:24:32 -0400
- To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- CC: "Gregg Tavares (勤)" <gman@google.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
On 5/14/12 10:18 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: > On 5/14/2012 7:09 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> On 5/14/12 10:00 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: >>> What would web fonts do in this situation, in Mozilla? >> >> Probably cry. ;) >> >>> If I've confirmed that a font is loaded in the main thread, would it >>> be available to a >>> worker for use in rendering? >> >> Not without some pretty serious reworking. Which might need to happen. >> >> Of course basic text layout would also not be available without some >> serious reworking (e.g. making the textrun cache threadsafe or >> creating per-thread textrun caches or something), so the question of >> web fonts is somewhat academic at the moment. >> > > I meant solely for Canvas 2d. Yes, I understand that. Canvas 2d text still needs to be able to do things like font fallback, shaping, bidi, etc, etc, etc. last I checked. -Boris
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