From: Jungshik Shin (jshin@mailaps.org)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 19:38:42 EST
Pim Blokland wrote:
> Doug Ewell wrote:
>
>> (..) the scenario Pim describes might work (although
>> asking a browser to interpret the internal structure of a font file
>> seems excessive to me). But the same mechanism is less likely to
> Is it really so excessive? Browsers already have to retrieve a lot
> of font info, like the line height and such. Why not character
It's not only excessive but also does not work at all for text-mode
browsers (including browsers with speech synthesizer for the blind)
that have no need for / interest in the internal structure of a font.
Your scheme is going against the stream of separating the content from
the presentation.
Jungshik Shin
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