Re: SVG Fonts inside of OpenType fonts? [Cross-post from www-font@w3.org]

For those features, you're asking for much more than just a script
associated with the font. You're requesting a large new API to interact with
the browser's layout engine. That is a lot more work than just supporting
script in the font. There are also severe performance and security issues
with calling into scripts during layout. Let's be a bit more focused here
please :-).

By the way, have you looked at SIL's Graphite engine? We plan to support it
in Firefox in the near future, at least on an experimental basis. It enables
a few of those features you mentioned.

Rob
-- 
"If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in
us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our
sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned,
we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us." [1 John 1:8-10]

Received on Wednesday, 29 June 2011 10:59:12 UTC