- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:35:11 +0200
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- CC: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Friday, September 17, 2010, 9:47:22 PM, Sylvain wrote: SG> This is not directly related but allow me to use the opportunity SG> to ask the same dumb question I asked at Typecon: how do authors SG> find out about the features available in a font and the correct SG> integer values to use ? They read the ample documentation that comes with the font. No? Ok well then they use trial and error. Or load it into a font editor and look. Yes, this is way harder to figure out than it needs to be. SG> Next question for the Web Fonts WG is: would an enumeration of SG> the features available in a font be a valuable use of the WOFF SG> metadata block ? I suspect it would make the latter far more SG> valuable to authors and thus add incentives for browser/tool SG> vendors to display its content. Interesting idea. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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