On Sep 11, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Martin Robinson <mrobin...@webkit.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Myles C. Maxfield <mmaxfi...@apple.com> > wrote: >> My question to WebKit-Dev is: Are there any ports who: >> 1) Want continued support for SVG fonts, and >> 2) Whose platforms do not support OpenType fonts natively? > > WebKitGTK+ supports OpenType natively and I as far as I know we have > no problems dropping support for SVG fonts. If SVG fonts are supported > by the Mac port though, we will probably still want to maintain > support for our own port, if possible. SVG Fonts live in the non-platform WebCore space. Dropping support for one platform but keeping the code around for another wouldn’t be of any benefit for WebCore as a whole. Adobe’s TypeKit team dropped support for SVG Fonts a couple of months ago and got very view complains. OT should be supported for WebKitGTK+ from the beginning and is a better replacement for WebCore’s SVG Font implementation in any possible way. It is much less likely that content for WebKitGTK+ uses SVG Fonts than for content for iOS. And even Apple seems to be willing to drop support now. Greetings, Dirk > > --Martin > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
