Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of WebKitGTKFonts

Timestamp:

Oct 4, 2010 3:39:23 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Martin Robinson

Comment:

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WebKitGTKFonts

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 = Goals =
-1. '''Proper CSS font selection''' The CSS standard has a fairly rigorous [http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-matching-algorithm|detailed algorithm] for selecting the appropriate font for text. Instead of properly falling back according to the list of fonts in CSS, WebKitGTK+ lets Fontconfig or Pango to supply what it thinks is an appropriate replacement. 
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-2. '''Use HarfBuzz directly''' PangoCairo uses HarfBuzz internally, but switching away from PangoCairo has benefits. Behdad Esfahbod, author of HarfBuzz, also summarizes why it is best for [http://behdad.org/text/| browsers to use HarfBuzz directly]:
+1. '''Use HarfBuzz directly''' PangoCairo uses HarfBuzz internally, but switching away from PangoCairo has benefits. Behdad Esfahbod, author of HarfBuzz, also summarizes why it is best for [http://behdad.org/text/| browsers to use HarfBuzz directly]:
   Firefox uses Pango. Firefox 2 was hacked to use PangoLayout API. That was very abusive and inherently inefficient. Firefox 3 has got a new layout engine that is completely based on cairo. The Linux port subclasses PangoFcFontMap to be able to support both CSS text selection as well as web fonts. By doing that it is essentially reimplementing most of Pango and only using the shaping logic. It makes much more sense to use HarfBuzz directly, and Mozilla is now working on getting HarfBuzz ready for that.
 Additionally, using HarfBuzz directly will allow us to share layout and shaping code with Chromium. 
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-3. '''Remove the Pango backend''' Maintaining the Pango backend is a serious support burden and since we'll be using HarfBuzz to do layout and shaping, is very redundant. For GTK+ ports that do not want to depend on Fontconfig, there is the option of using native Win32 font selection. The WinCairo port is already using this.
+2. '''Remove the Pango backend''' Maintaining the Pango backend is a serious support burden and since we'll be using HarfBuzz to do layout and shaping, is very redundant. For GTK+ ports that do not want to depend on Fontconfig, there is the option of using native Win32 font selection. The WinCairo port is already using this.
 
 = Font Bugs =