Re: Using Javascript to Detect Script Support in a Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Petr Tomasek
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 03:51:37PM +1000, Marc Durdin wrote: I'd love to see that in Javascript. Of course then you need to know if it will shape correctly as well for it to be useful to the end user. Dotted circles are only marginally better than square boxes. And that's a much harder

Re: Using Javascript to Detect Script Support in a Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Christoph Päper
Ed Trager: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Marc Durdin P { font-family: Code2000, MyCode2000; } @font-face { font-family: MyCode2000; src: url('code2000.ttf'); } P { font-family: MyCode2000; } @font-face { font-family: MyCode2000; src: local(Code2000), url('code2000.ttf'); } (…)

Re: Using Javascript to Detect Script Support in a Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Doug Ewell
Marc Durdin marc dot durdin at tavultesoft dot com wrote: I'd love to see that in Javascript. Of course then you need to know if it will shape correctly as well for it to be useful to the end user. Dotted circles are only marginally better than square boxes. And that's a much harder

Using Javascript to Detect Script Support in a Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew West
On 17 June 2010 06:51, Marc Durdin marc.dur...@tavultesoft.com wrote: I'd love to see that in Javascript.  Of course then you need to know if it will shape correctly as well for it to be useful to the end user.  Dotted circles are only marginally better than square boxes.  And that's a much

Re: Using Javascript to Detect Script Support in a Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Ed Trager
If I’m not mistaken it should work, in theory at least, to put a generic font family (i.e. ‘serif’, ‘sans-serif’ etc.) _before_ your virtual font in the ‘font-family’ declaration. Many user agents can be set up to use a specific font per script (or codepage) for each generic family (or

RE: Using Javascript to Detect Script Support in a Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Marc Durdin
Doug Ewell doug at ewellic dot org wrote: I suspect that in the real world, the problem of no support vs. any support at all is more common and has greater ramifications than the quality of support. Couple that with how hard the quality question is to answer, and this becomes a matter of

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-17 Thread Tulasi
Thanks Ken! What is equivalent ISO/IEC for U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ)? Or do Unicode ISO/IEC use different number name for same letter/symbol? Tulasi From: Kenneth Whistler k...@sybase.com Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Latin Script To: tulas...@gmail.com Cc:

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-17 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 6/17/2010 7:24 PM, Tulasi wrote: What is equivalent ISO/IEC ISO/IEC what? There are hundreds of ISO/IEC standards, of which dozens are character encoding standards. for U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ)? Or do Unicode ISO/IEC use different number name for same letter/symbol?