Re: SVG Requirements - PRNG and Font shaping from Cameron McCormack on 2012-01-22 (www-svg@w3.org from January 2012)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:42:26 +1100
To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
CC: SVG public list <www-svg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4F1C9EE2.1060503@mcc.id.au>

Hi Charles,

just addressing the first point:

Charles Pritchard:
> Mozilla has made it very clear that they will not implement SVG Fonts
> without additional extensions.
> They've put weight behind their veto threat in all versions of Firefox.
>
> They've demanded that the Fonts chapter, if supported, must have
> additional features. Otherwise, they will only support WOFF.
> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/SVG2_Requirements_Input#Fonts

We (Mozilla) are working towards an SVG-inside-OpenType solution.  This 
will provide better internationalisation and a simpler model for 
animated, graphical fonts.  This approach seems to have some support 
within the Working Group, although nothing formal has been written up or 
resolved upon yet.

Received on Sunday, 22 January 2012 23:43:06 UTC