- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:35:37 -0500
- To: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Cc: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, MasaFuji <masa@fuji.email.ne.jp>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, www-font@w3.org
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 22:31 -0800, Thomas Phinney wrote: > When I consider the ever-increasing attention paid to China by everyone > including OS vendors, plus @font-face, Google Font Directory, and emerging > technologies for streaming CJK fonts to devices (such as whatever it is > Monotype is now doing in this regard), I don't expect the CJK-web-font > status quo to remain unchanged for very long. A missing piece from this puzzle might be the ability to download individual glyphs on the fly and add them to a font. I suppose one can get close in JavaScript by having a lots and lots of smaller fonts and adding a whole font on the fly. But there's always room for a javascrpt api to fonts later... Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org
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