Re: [webkit-dev] Feature announcement: Font Boosting

2012-05-24 Thread John Mellor
 I think it would be great to talk about this at the WebKit summit
tomorrow, if you are there.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to make the WebKit summit, but beverloo
mentioned that you were able to chat a little. I'm happy to discuss further
by email or otherwise :)

For those who aren't following the bug, I've uploaded the full diff[1] of
Chrome for Android's current Font Boosting implementation (not for review,
just for reference to show how it fits together). And I've uploaded the
first actual patch (adding compile/runtime flags) to webkit.org/b/87394,
which is now up for review.

Cheers,
John

[1]: http://webkit.org/b/FontBoosting

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen 
kenneth.christian...@gmail.com wrote:

 I think it would be great to talk about this at the WebKit summit
 tomorrow, if you are there.

 Cheers
 Kenneth


 On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:17 PM, John Mellor joh...@chromium.org wrote:

 Hi webkit-dev,

 You may have heard http://youtu.be/aCdZIHBbRV0?t=1m26s that Chrome for
 Android includes a Font Boosting feature. This is similar in intent to
 the text size 
 adjusthttp://developer.apple.com/library/ios/DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/AdjustingtheTextSize/AdjustingtheTextSize.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006510-SW16feature
  in Mobile Safari, that the QT port also seems
 interested in http://webkit.org/b/73546. Other mobile browsers have
 corresponding features: Mobile Firefox uses font 
 inflationhttp://dbaron.org/log/2026-font-inflationand IE Mobile 
 applies text
 size 
 adjustmenthttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff462082(v=vs.92).aspx#sectionToggle2
 .

 Font Boosting increases the font size in wide blocks, so that you can
 easily read the text after double-tapping to fit the block to the screen,
 instead of having to zoom in further then scroll from side to side for each
 line you read.

 The details are subtle (since web text layout is complicated), and
 there's still a lot of tweaking to do. We chose to boost font sizes more
 than Mobile Safari (which has various limits), producing easily legible
 text, more in line with IE Mobile and Firefox Mobile.

 This is core functionality for mobile browsers, so we would like to
 upstream our implementation of Font Boosting to WebCore. We are keen to
 share code with other ports (e.g. QT and Mobile Safari) that are interested
 in this feature, and will be happy to incorporate suggestions on how to
 make this easier.

 I've opened webkit.org/b/84186 to track this effort.

 Best wishes,
 John




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 Nokia Mobile Phones, Browser / WebKit team
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Re: [webkit-dev] Feature announcement: Font Boosting

2012-04-18 Thread Kenneth Rohde Christiansen
I think it would be great to talk about this at the WebKit summit tomorrow,
if you are there.

Cheers
Kenneth

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:17 PM, John Mellor joh...@chromium.org wrote:

 Hi webkit-dev,

 You may have heard http://youtu.be/aCdZIHBbRV0?t=1m26s that Chrome for
 Android includes a Font Boosting feature. This is similar in intent to
 the text size 
 adjusthttp://developer.apple.com/library/ios/DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/AdjustingtheTextSize/AdjustingtheTextSize.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006510-SW16feature
  in Mobile Safari, that the QT port also seems
 interested in http://webkit.org/b/73546. Other mobile browsers have
 corresponding features: Mobile Firefox uses font 
 inflationhttp://dbaron.org/log/2026-font-inflationand IE Mobile applies 
 text
 size 
 adjustmenthttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff462082(v=vs.92).aspx#sectionToggle2
 .

 Font Boosting increases the font size in wide blocks, so that you can
 easily read the text after double-tapping to fit the block to the screen,
 instead of having to zoom in further then scroll from side to side for each
 line you read.

 The details are subtle (since web text layout is complicated), and there's
 still a lot of tweaking to do. We chose to boost font sizes more than
 Mobile Safari (which has various limits), producing easily legible text,
 more in line with IE Mobile and Firefox Mobile.

 This is core functionality for mobile browsers, so we would like to
 upstream our implementation of Font Boosting to WebCore. We are keen to
 share code with other ports (e.g. QT and Mobile Safari) that are interested
 in this feature, and will be happy to incorporate suggestions on how to
 make this easier.

 I've opened webkit.org/b/84186 to track this effort.

 Best wishes,
 John




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Senior Engineer
Nokia Mobile Phones, Browser / WebKit team
Phone  +45 4093 0598 / E-mail kenneth at webkit. http://gmail.comorg

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[webkit-dev] Feature announcement: Font Boosting

2012-04-17 Thread John Mellor
Hi webkit-dev,

You may have heard http://youtu.be/aCdZIHBbRV0?t=1m26s that Chrome for
Android includes a Font Boosting feature. This is similar in intent to
the text size 
adjusthttp://developer.apple.com/library/ios/DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/AdjustingtheTextSize/AdjustingtheTextSize.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006510-SW16feature
in Mobile Safari, that the QT port also seems
interested in http://webkit.org/b/73546. Other mobile browsers have
corresponding features: Mobile Firefox uses font
inflationhttp://dbaron.org/log/2026-font-inflationand IE Mobile
applies text
size 
adjustmenthttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff462082(v=vs.92).aspx#sectionToggle2
.

Font Boosting increases the font size in wide blocks, so that you can
easily read the text after double-tapping to fit the block to the screen,
instead of having to zoom in further then scroll from side to side for each
line you read.

The details are subtle (since web text layout is complicated), and there's
still a lot of tweaking to do. We chose to boost font sizes more than
Mobile Safari (which has various limits), producing easily legible text,
more in line with IE Mobile and Firefox Mobile.

This is core functionality for mobile browsers, so we would like to
upstream our implementation of Font Boosting to WebCore. We are keen to
share code with other ports (e.g. QT and Mobile Safari) that are interested
in this feature, and will be happy to incorporate suggestions on how to
make this easier.

I've opened webkit.org/b/84186 to track this effort.

Best wishes,
John
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