- From: Helder Magalhães <helder.magalhaes@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:03:46 +0000
- To: "SVG WG" <www-svg@w3.org>
Hello SVG-WG, A while ago, I've stumbled across a couple of comments by Hixie [1] and Doug [2] related to a potential inclusion of SVG Fonts into content other than SVG (HTML, for example). As a coincidence, a related thread by Andreas [3] asked about the status of Web fonts [4] support so I'm wondering about the possibilities and feasibility of such an approach. Naively, I can think of some: (+) It would allow authors to use SVG Fonts when Web fonts were not available (for example, SVG is reasonably supported in mobile terminals, whereas I don't know the status of Web font support in those simpler implementations). (+) This would help increasing SVG usage and deployed content. (-) Firefox doesn't support SVG fonts (yet [5]). Is there interest in coordinating this with the SVG effects for CSS effort [6] and/or the SVG in HTML proposal? It's somehow similar in the way that it's SVG being integrated into other technologies... Maybe I'm missing something (this may already be considered in a newer version of specifications I'm not familiar with, such as HTML5 [8]) but I surely wouldn't like that such a neat idea [1] [2] got lost within a bug report [5]... ;-) Regards, Helder Magalhães [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490#c4 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490#c7 [3] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/61220 [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-webfonts/ [5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490 [6] http://people.mozilla.com/~roc/SVG-CSS-Effects-Draft.html [7] http://dev.w3.org/SVG/proposals/svg-html/svg-html-proposal.html [8] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/
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