- From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad.esfahbod@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 05:34:34 +0000
- To: Andrew Cunningham <lang.support@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Received on Friday, 8 July 2016 12:02:52 UTC
What's wrong with lang / xml:lang?! On May 30, 2016 10:26 PM, "Andrew Cunningham" <lang.support@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The current editors draft indicates that font-language-override feature is > at risk. > > This feature can be used with firefox, but not with other browsers. > > Current support means we can use the Padauk or Noto Sans Myanmar for a > range of languages in Firefox that can not be supported by the same font in > other browsers. For instance if I need to support some of the other Karen > languages using Sgaw Karen preferences, i can not currently rely on > font-language-override suppot to handle this. > > This forces us to hack the fonts in question making alternative language > versions of the fonts where the default rendering is changed. > > Reengineering fonts in this way is beyond the ability of the average web > developer and browser developers should not be placing this burden on web > developers. > > If font-language-override is dropped from the spec, an alternative method > exposing browsers default locl processing needs to be exposed to web > developers, allowing web developers to override locl processing in some > fashion. > > Andrew >
Received on Friday, 8 July 2016 12:02:52 UTC