- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:07:50 -0700
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On the subject of terminology in http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#font-variant-numeric-prop I find the use of the term 'font rendering' in this document unfortunate, and would like to request that it be changed. For font developers -- who spend a lot of time these days talking about what happens to text on screen -- rendering refers to glyph painting (typically some form of rasterisation). Hence, we talk about e.g. different kinds of rendering engines and models, Apple Quartz rendering vs. Microsoft ClearType rendering, hinting for different rendering environments, etc. The kind of glyph substitution and positioning behaviours and properties described in the draft document are what we would call text layout, not font rendering. John Hudson
Received on Wednesday, 24 March 2010 06:08:25 UTC