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Fiddling with foreign objects
As part of a talk I did down at Kansai Open Forum in Osaka last week, I played around with ways to use the SVG foreignObject tag and came up with this quick header menu example (note: requires a FF3...
View ArticleMaking font initialization lazier
Last week I spent some time looking at font system initialization on the Mac (bugs 517045 and 519445). At startup, code in gfx on Mac and Windows currently enumerates all fonts on the system. This...
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Better Postscript CFF font rendering with DirectWrite
For those playing with Windows 7, check out some of the work Bas Schouten has been doing with adding DirectWrite support to Firefox. DirectWrite is Microsoft’s replacement for Uniscribe in Windows 7...
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ATypI 2009
Last week Jonathan Kew and I went down to attend and present at ATypI 2009, a typography conference that took place in Mexico City this year. There was an entire day of sessions on web fonts. Jonathan...
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CSS3 Fonts discussion at Typecon 2010
This week I spoke at Typecon in Los Angeles, a large gathering of folks interested in type. I did a presentation on new features in the CSS3 Fonts spec. Three hours were allotted so there was plenty of...
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Chrome banner ads in Japan
These two banner ads appeared on the Japanese version of Slashdot. The wording on the top one from last week includes “Google chrome, a browser built from scratch by Google” but the one this week just...
View ArticleDirectWrite text rendering survey
Firefox 4.0 uses the DirectWrite text rendering API if it’s available on your Windows 7 machine. In order to get a better idea of the range of text rendering behavior that Windows 7 users are seeing,...
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DirectWrite Text Rendering in Firefox 6
In Firefox 4, we switched from using the GDI on Windows to using the DirectWrite API on platforms that support it such as Windows 7. This was required for supporting hardware acceleration via Direct2D...
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