Re: sr flag question

2012-12-12 Thread Justin Lebar
> Recently I read Dave Townsend's thread about "Super-review, > what shall we do with you?" and realized there wasn't any > conclusion to that. > > As a relative new dev, I think it is vital to have a clear > distinction as to when a sr is required. I think the conclusion to draw from that thread

sr flag question

2012-12-12 Thread Edmund Wong
Hi, Recently I read Dave Townsend's thread about "Super-review, what shall we do with you?" and realized there wasn't any conclusion to that. As a relative new dev, I think it is vital to have a clear distinction as to when a sr is required. I've only done a few patches that required sr (c-c st

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-12 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: > Knowing that in most cases you will be reimplementing in parallel the > support the user has added to the OS so that native application can get it. > And doing it in parallel means never doing it perfectly the same way. This argument

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-12 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Norbert Lindenberg a écrit : This is really basic infrastructure that for native applications is provided by the OS and for web applications should be provided by the browser. And why do you set the aim for the web application to be able to do what the native application next to it will be una

Re: Integrating ICU into Mozilla build

2012-12-12 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Axel Hecht a écrit : Additionally, quite a few users are multilingual. If I look at en-US usage, only half of that is within the US, followed by India and Indonesia. Also, OS support usually means support for the language the OS is running in, not the language we use for Firefox. Bi-lingual, no

Re: Synchronous loading of data: URLs

2012-12-12 Thread Neil
Jonathan Kew wrote: On 11/12/12 10:51, Neil wrote: Neil wrote: Jonathan Kew wrote: You shouldn't normally see a flash of fallback text unless the font is particularly slow to load; the text should be invisible until the font is available. We aim to hide the text until the font is ready,

Re: Freetype autohinter (was Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web Fonts Working Group)

2012-12-12 Thread Karl Tomlinson
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:31:15 -0700, Jonas Sicking wrote: > It sounds to me that it's not generally true that autohinters can replace > hinting. At least not yet. > > What would be interesting is if we could enable an autohinter in Firefox > and use that in cases when we are sent a font which doesn