- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:05:34 -0700
- To: Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com>
- Cc: Gustavo Ferreira <gustavo.ferreira@hipertipo.net>, karsten luecke <list@kltf.de>, www-font@w3.org
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Dave Crossland<dave@lab6.com> wrote: > 2009/7/7 Gustavo Ferreira <gustavo.ferreira@hipertipo.net>: >> >> It find it unfortunate that current font architecture doesn't take optical >> sizes into consideration. > > Yes, current _desktop_ font architectures don't. But the current web > font architecture is more flexible, I think. That is, inspecting a > rendered DOM and modifying it with Javascript so that nodes are styled > with fonts appropriate to their currently rendered size seem a > possibility. I would hope that CSS4 would provide a clean way to do > that without JS hackishness. Strictly speaking, current desktop *font* architectures do support optical sizes. With a very few exceptions, it's the applications that don't (or operating systems, if you expect system level support). Cheers, T
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