Version 10 (modified by 11 years ago) (diff) | ,
---|
The Font Backends
WebKitGTK+ currently supports a single font backend which uses Fontconfig for selection, Freetype for rasterization, and Harfbuzz for complex text shaping. We recently switched from supporting an optional Pango-based backend. Now the "Freetype" backend is the only one available.
Remaining font bugs
There are still some font bugs remaining. Here's a list to help us keep track of them:
- if font-family lists several generic families, the last one takes precedence
- GTK: fast/text/font-kerning.html fails
- WebKit freetype backend doesn't support "locl" tables
- CPU spikes when rendering, spending time loading compressed pcf fonts
- freetype port: font fallback mechanism can try harder *