Re: [webkit-dev] EOT Support in WebKit

2008-11-04 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Hi list. I recently emailed a few indie font developers to get their opinions on EOT and @font-face. Here's the first response worth reading on the matter. Ray has given permission for his comments to be distributed to any interested browser developers. — Nicholas Shanks. Begin

Re: [webkit-dev] EOT Support in WebKit

2008-10-21 Thread Nicholas Shanks
appear as high‐byte Latin-1 or invalid UTF−8 diamonds, depending on the user's default encoding. Needless to say neither will work with find‐in‐page or copy paste. — Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ webkit

Re: [webkit-dev] EOT Support in WebKit

2008-10-17 Thread Nicholas Shanks
that the order the fonts are listed is the order that they have to be used. You can also use the fact that internet explorer ignores any src value with a format() specifier. src: url(font.ttf) format(truetype), url(font.eot); — Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic

Re: [webkit-dev] State of WebKit S60

2008-04-10 Thread Nicholas Shanks
I think someone should land these even if the fork is dead, so that anyone looking at the code in future (perhaps contemplating a similar port) won't have as many bugs to consider. — Nicholas Shanks. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [webkit-dev] Apple's feature and performance goals for WebKit

2007-11-29 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 30 Nov 2007, at 00:27, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: • Support for the link navigation elements in HTML headers and an API to be exposed with Safari implementation. The DOM API is sufficient for WebKit clients to implement this if they choose to. Well that could lead to incompatible or

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit Project Goals

2007-05-11 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Nice. You may also want to mention accessibility, public advocacy (i.e. to web devs) and a high degree of visual polish (e.g. anti- aliasing), though the latter may come under platform-native HI conventions. You may also consider sorting them into priority groups or an ordered list. I

Re: [webkit-dev] Proposal: feature branch

2007-05-09 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 9 May 2007, at 07:32, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: I propose we create a branch where feature work, as well as non- critical compliance, compatibility and performance work can go. I for one would welcome such a development, as I would be able to resume the patches supporting CSS font-weight

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit coverage (a little welcome present)

2007-05-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 5 May 2007, at 00:02, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: We'd prefer not to have GPL code the repository. I think for green, red and amber images, recreating them is best. Or output inline SVG instead. - Nicholas. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature