Reminds me of HTML. All platform consistency in display… until Microsoft and 
Netscape decided to do it “better”. It begs the question, is it better to be 
consistent with everyone else’s standards, or better to be… well… better?

Bob S


On Aug 25, 2020, at 5:40 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode 
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:

Yes, we all remember the TrueType rollout, and the promise of a single-file, 
cross-platform font definition.

But for that format to provide pixel-perfect matched rendering requires all 
renderer implementers to use the same code.  And as you know, they don't.

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