On May 30, 2013, at 10:22 AM, "Daniel Spreadbury" <
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> Joe wrote:
>
>> You are right that CSS3 Fonts browser support is rather sketchy
>> right now, and I don't think targeting this API amounts to "aiming
>> low enough" in terms of simplicity. There are lots of advanced web
>> APIs out there that do not yet have traction, which is why I
>> suggested looking at the text-related components of HTML5 SVG and
>> Canvas (which, by the way, resemble earlier platform-independent
>> font/text engines like the one found in Adobe Flash).
>
> Can you provide a good link for documentation of these APIs, for those of
> us (i.e. me) who is not super-experienced in using them?
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090825/the-canvas-element.html> My feeling on this is that any font technology that succeeds OpenType will
> be a superset of the functionality that is already found within OpenType,
> just as OpenType is a superset of the functionality of Type 1 and TrueType
> fonts, and UFO is likewise designed to capture the full breadth of
> functionality found within OpenType. So targeting OpenType features seems
> safe enough to me.
Targeting the feature set is fine. I was concerned about targeting the specific technology itself.
Best,
. . . . . ...Joe
Joe Berkovitz
President
Noteflight LLC
Boston, Mass.
phone: +1 978 314 6271
www.noteflight.com
"Your music, everywhere"
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