On 7/29/14, 3:33 PM, Bear Travis wrote:
On 7/29/14, 12:26 PM, "Benjamin Poulain" <benja...@webkit.org> wrote:
On 7/29/14, 11:38 AM, Dirk Schulze wrote:
On Jul 29, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Bear Travis <betra...@adobe.com> wrote:
Hi All,
WebKit has support for an older version of the CSS Font Loading
Specification [1], implemented back in 2013 [2]. I would like to bring
this work in line with the current version of the specification, and
enable it by default in the nightlies. The specification provides
support for coordinating font loading: querying if fonts have loaded,
requesting specific fonts to load, and providing notifications as fonts
are loading.
Other browsers have a positive outlook on the feature. Chrome has
already shipped it [3], and Mozilla is in the process of implementing
it [4].
Do you want to implement it behind a compile time flag? IMO it is an
important and great API. However, Cameron filed a lot of specifications
but reports while implementing it [1]. So there might still be some
issues to discover.
I strongly support the implementation though.
+1.
Yep, the implementation will be behind a compile time flag (the old
implementation already is). That said, I would like to have it enabled by
default in dev builds and the nightlies, both to get it into users’ hands
for testing and to keep the bots running the tests.
That's okay.
The flags are useful to disable unfinished features when shipping (until
they are ready). You can enable a flag in nightly if the code is stable
and has good test coverage, the feature does not need to be complete.
Successful examples are CSS Grid Layout and the Picture Element. Both
are work in progress, they are enabled in Nightly, but none of that code
is compiled into the released WebKit.
Benjamin
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