It wouldn't just be in svg. http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxm22/unsupported.html
Jerry On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Robert Longson <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > > > > > The only way I could get text to scale properly to a viewBox (and hence > to scale in a device-independent way) for most of the examples at > http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/text/ was to set textLength > and use lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs" Firefox, seems to be lagging quite > behind in its support of the advanced text handling features of SVG1.1 > which is why, I gather, they are recommending that support for text, at > least in the form of SVG fonts be dropped from SVG2.0, in the name of > progress, I suppose. It remains to be seen if all other aspects of advanced > text handling will be dropped from SVG. Part of it, I gather, is that the > HTML CSS crowd have discovered how cool SVG effects are and they want to > apply them to HTML even if it means trashing SVG in the process. I suppose > some, but not all members of the SVG WG might have reason to disagree with > my pessimism. > > > > > > It's true that Firefox is lagging behind with some text features. That has > nothing to do with why we're not doing SVG fonts. > > SVG Fonts only support some of the world's languages. Those supported > languages happen to include the one that you prefer to use - English. If > your generally used Hindi for reading/writing you would be asking why you > can't use SVG Fonts at all even in the UAs that support them rather than > advocating that more UAs support something you just can't use. > > Robert. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
