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 > adjust<http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/DOCUMENTATION/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/AdjustingtheTextSize/AdjustingtheTextSize.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006510-SW16>feature > 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 > inflation<http://dbaron.org/log/20111126-font-inflation>and IE Mobile applies > text > size > adjustment<http://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 > -- Kenneth Rohde Christiansen Senior Engineer Nokia Mobile Phones, Browser / WebKit team Phone +45 4093 0598 / E-mail kenneth at webkit. <http://gmail.com>org http://codeposts.blogspot.com ﹆﹆﹆
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