On 2014.09.14, at 01:11, Dirk Schulze k...@webkit.org wrote:
On Sep 11, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Martin Robinson mrobin...@webkit.org wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Myles C. Maxfield mmaxfi...@apple.com
wrote:
My question to WebKit-Dev is: Are there any ports who:
1) Want continued support for SVG fonts, and
2) Whose platforms do not support OpenType fonts natively?
WebKitGTK+ supports OpenType natively and I as far as I know we have
no problems dropping support for SVG fonts. If SVG fonts are supported
by the Mac port though, we will probably still want to maintain
support for our own port, if possible.
SVG Fonts live in the non-platform WebCore space. Dropping support for one
platform but keeping the code around for another wouldn’t be of any benefit
for WebCore as a whole.
Agreed (but I don’t think the original email was suggesting that; pretty sure
Myles was just gauging whether there were any ports that don’t have OT support
but need SVG fonts, which would preclude switching over to the translation
approach).
Adobe’s TypeKit team dropped support for SVG Fonts a couple of months ago and
got very view complains. OT should be supported for WebKitGTK+ from the
beginning and is a better replacement for WebCore’s SVG Font implementation
in any possible way. It is much less likely that content for WebKitGTK+ uses
SVG Fonts than for content for iOS. And even Apple seems to be willing to
drop support now.
As mentioned recently, we probably can’t drop support outright, but if Myles’
experiment with translating straightforward (no color/animation/etc.) SVG fonts
to OpenType and rendering them that way pans out (which it seems like it’s
going to), we can remove a good deal of scary code and do it that way instead
(that should cover most-if-not-all of the cases that block us from removing
support entirely).
Greetings,
Dirk
--Martin
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