InkML is a development relevant to mobile Web.
Tablets and other input-rich devices are gaining in acceptance (and
becoming easier to purchase).
InkML is one of the few specs to put forward both a stream-based and
archive-oriented format.
We'll be using it to serialize input between devices, recording time,
and pressure data when available.
In relation to font rendering: though standard dialects and scripts are
widely supported,
non-standard usage, personal usage, experimental / artistic expression
are not part of the package.
That's an area where InkML will intersect with mobile rendering of
linguistic data.
InkML and VoiceXML provide a standard means to transcribe language.
That's great for researchers and anthropologists.
The programmable canvas tag and audio tags, associated with the img tag
and audio/video sources,
provide scientists with a standard structure to render transcribed
vocalizations and movements.
InkML and VoiceXML enable their transcription.
The mobile web refers to sensor-rich, portable devices; two things which
computers
generally aren't. Laptops are a kludge to carry, and sensor-rich devices
are generally
used in scientific labs, not consumer desktops.
Pressure sensitive computing tablets have been available for years, but
they did not gain wide acceptance
nor support. It was recent touch-based mobile devices which introduced
the web to sensory-rich computing.
-Charles
On 3/8/2011 8:41 PM, Somnath Chandra wrote:
Hi Richards,
Thanks for the input. Yes we are aware of the work and investigating
Indian Language /Scripts Complexities on that platform also. Certainly
our idea is not to redo the same work and to address specific issues
of each Indic languages.
Best Regards,
Somnath
On 03/08/11, *Richard Ishida *<ish...@w3.org> wrote:
On 08/03/2011 15:08, Somnath Chandra wrote:
>We have already started working on Mobile Rendering Engine and Fonts
>development which would enable seamless display across platforms and
>devices.
That's interesting. Did you know about work currently under way
involving Harfbuz to provide a small, universal rendering engine that
can be used on mobile devices and other kinds of OS to do opentype
rendering? [1] Are you working on the same thing? I'd hate to
think that you are reinventing the wheel such that different systems
are needed for different fonts...
RI
[1] http://behdad.org/text/
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Dept. of Information Technology
Govt. of India
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