On Wed, 2007-07-03 at 15:02 -0800, Raph Levien wrote: [...] > That said, there is a case to be made for optimizing display quality > today. The richest unexplored avenue, I think, is grayscale bitmaps.
Possibly, but people still want to print stuff :-) [...] > I sense one opportunity for which grayscale bitmap fonts may be > viable: to display text within the WHATWG canvas. I'd rather see work done with SVG -- at least the SVG Working Group had accessibility as a requirement. [...] > In sum, I'm not sure what to recommend. If the free software community > follows its traditional patterns, it will never quite get its butt in > gear. True! > But that's not necessarily a serious problem, because high-res > displays will come along and make the point moot. Given a choice right now I'd rather see some focus on opentype feature support and basic stuff like getting line spacing into all the font selection/formatting dialogues (you still can't add line spacing in gedit for example), i.e. let's move into the 1970s with text handling :-) With the numbers of people involved, unfortunately, I think it's really a case of that sort of choice. But support for colour and greyscale fonts doesn't sound like a bad idea to me either. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
