- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:46:01 -0700
- To: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: list.adam@twardoch.com, Sergey Malkin <sergeym@microsoft.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Monday 2010-09-27 08:11 +1300, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > This problem has been discussed before on the WHATWG list. It's tricky > because in some browsers (e.g. Gecko) we only start loading the font after > you try to draw text that needs it. One possible solution: after drawing > canvas text with a font that hasn't finished loading, when the font finishes > loading fire an event at the canvas, e.g. "fontload". Another possible solution (which might be useful for other things, but also might be more painful to use than a solution specific to this problem) is to add APIs to CSSFontFaceRule to: * find out if the font is loaded * request that the font be loaded (and add an observer to be called when it is) -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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