On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Tim Horton <thor...@apple.com> wrote: > 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: >>> 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).
Sorry. I probably should have been less obscure about this, but this was a gentle request that the work be done using cross-platform abstractions, so that it can be shared. If that's difficult or impossible, we'll figure something else out. :) --Martin _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
