On 2014.09.14, at 01:11, Dirk Schulze <k...@webkit.org> wrote: > > 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.
Agreed (but I don’t think the original email was suggesting that; pretty sure Myles was just gauging whether there were any ports that don’t have OT support but need SVG fonts, which would preclude switching over to the translation approach). > 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. As mentioned recently, we probably can’t drop support outright, but if Myles’ experiment with translating straightforward (no color/animation/etc.) SVG fonts to OpenType and rendering them that way pans out (which it seems like it’s going to), we can remove a good deal of scary code and do it that way instead (that should cover most-if-not-all of the cases that block us from removing support entirely). > 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 _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
