> 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 >> 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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