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.

Re: [webkit-dev] EOT Support in WebKit

2008-10-21 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Content-Type header, so will probably 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 Desc

Re: [webkit-dev] EOT Support in WebKit

2008-10-17 Thread Nicholas Shanks
ich states 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 cry

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 sign

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 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 buggy im

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

2007-11-29 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 29 Nov 2007, at 10:56, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: We may post more details about some of these soon. I'm curious what is of interest to other WebKit contributors. I'm especially interested in areas where particular organizations or individuals might be interested in directly contributing.

Re: [webkit-dev] Accept- & Content-Resolution headers proposal

2007-06-08 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Hi Peter. I recommend you take a look at what Larry Masinter pointed out. It becomes clear that all of this has already been solved 9 years ago, but because it (apparently) isn't enabled in Apache by default, I and many others never even realised it existed: Content negotiation for HTTP

Re: [webkit-dev] Accept- & Content-Resolution headers proposal

2007-06-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
sorry for more spam people :-) a couple of things i don't have time to write about before i go to bed (tis gone 1am here) http code 300 is what i was wanting, not 406 or making up a new one http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.1 the "Suggest-Location" param

Re: [webkit-dev] Accept- & Content-Resolution headers proposal

2007-06-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 7 Jun 2007, at 23:07, Rob Burns wrote: PS, again my suggestion is for the client to request specific pixel dimensions for the media not the ppi/dpi/cmpi) If the the UA is in an environment with multiple displays or multiple resolution output of any kind it can use that in determining the

Re: [webkit-dev] Accept- & Content-Resolution headers proposal

2007-06-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 7 Jun 2007, at 21:52, Andre-John Mas wrote: Surely all of this becomes moot if we specify objects in terms of inches, cm or mm, all of which are already supported by css? Yes, but we want a solution that works where CSS is unavailable, the target destination may not be an HTML page eithe

Re: [webkit-dev] Accept- & Content-Resolution headers proposal

2007-06-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
On 7 Jun 2007, at 20:58, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: 2) DPI is not really the relevant factor to make the decision, what's important is the UI scale factor. If I'm running at 144 DPI but at 1x scale, I want the same images as at 72 dpi 1x scale. I presume you meant "72 dpi 2x scale" there. In

Re: [webkit-dev] Accept- & Content-Resolution headers proposal

2007-06-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
Sorry, Accept-Content: text/css, text/dsssl, text/xsl should of course have referred to "Accept-Type" :-) - Nicholas. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit

[webkit-dev] Accept- & Content-Resolution headers proposal

2007-06-07 Thread Nicholas Shanks
It has been mentioned on the Safari WebKit development mailing list that a HTTP header which specified a document's target resolution would be useful to allow clients to negotiate for high-res or low-res artwork and CSS referring to such (background-image, and the like), depending on their

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

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 a

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 ___