2008/11/1 Christopher Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:33 +, Dave Crossland wrote:
http://typeface.neocracy.org/
I think it would be great for OFLB to support this once day, as a
'fallback' for browsers without @font-face linking support :-)
What we need is proper
Dave Crossland wrote:
Do you think _not_ supporting things like that .js will help speed
@font-face adoption?
As much as possible, I'd like to see efforts *focused* on getting
widespread support for @font-face.
As I see it partial solutions can remove some of the pressure for a more
I agree with Chris 100%.
When I took a look at the http://typeface.neocracy.org/ project and code, I
was surprised at all the work they had put in to it. One problem with this
approach is that it is so temporary -- as soon as @font-face becomes more
widely supported, their solution will be
Hi,
Ed Trager wrote:
bigger problem, as Chris pointed out, is there is no support for complex
text layout. So they have all of this nicely written code with complete
workarounds for both CANVAS and VML, and perhaps one year from now it will
remain largely unused.
Can't wait for that
Hi,
Dave Crossland wrote:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/oflib.html
George, this is fantastic work! :-)
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This is very nice.
My comments, with reference to the next OFLB site version, on the
instructions on that page:
* Linux packagers
2008/11/1 Ben Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there any real reason for there to be a zip? Would it make sense to
decompress any compressed file and not store the say zip at all?
Yes. It would. Zip makes a great upload and download arrangement but is
useless for @font-face hosting which OFLB
Hi,
In another thread, Ben made reference to the next OFLB site version.
This is currently at
http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org
If anyone wants an account, email me offlist.
Cheers,
Dave
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2008/11/1 Ben Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
perhaps a font where the glyph stems were nude figures
Your speculation about an unsuitable font is illuminating, George ;-)
I've seen 2 freeware fonts with naked chick clipart for glyphs :-)
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Dave Crossland wrote:
Hi,
In another thread, Ben made reference to the next OFLB site version.
This is currently at
http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org
If anyone wants an account, email me offlist.
Cheers,
Dave
Wow, looks quite promising. Great work.
The triple-verb is a very nice
2008/11/1 Nicolas Spalinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A quick comment: I think the font-face path should include a version
string to distinguish current/future versions/branches (maybe in name of
the file itself). Something like:
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/11/1 Ben Weiner:
perhaps a font where the glyph stems were nude figures
Your speculation about an unsuitable font is illuminating, George ;-)
I've seen 2 freeware fonts with naked chick clipart for glyphs :-)
And you never
:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openfontlibrary/attachments/20081101/8fa20bb6/attachment-0001.pgp
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Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:47:05 +0600
From: Christopher Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Openfontlibrary] typography.js from
http
(c) when any individual files are added to the typeface, create a new
zip that includes everything
For what reason? Downloading? Is this essential or ideal?
(d) have the decompression work for any common format
(e) have the compression happen in a range of formats
So, everything is
Hi, Dave,
I took only a quick look at the TODO wiki page you mentioned:
Default tags for upload pages- do we want more than: african, arabic, asian,
cyrillic, fantasy, latin, monospace, sans_serif, script, serif, symbol
Yes.
I'm not sure what default tags for upload pages actually means, but
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