Re: font renderers in gdk

["Koen D'Hondt" <ripley xs4all nl>]

Christoph Toshok wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> spurred by raster's comments about FnLib and anti-aliased fonts, I've
> hacked a font renderer abstraction into gdk.
This is a *very* cool idea, one of the coolest I've read so far. In
fact, it's so damn cool I want to have it yesterday! This is absolutely
worth having in *any* toolkit, not just Gdk. I wonder why nobody ever
came up with this idea before!

> Using the URL scheme, you can either specify a font renderer, or the
> font code will discover one for you that can handle the font.  The two
> ways of specifying a font are (for example):
webfonts! Once w3c agrees on a final standard for those things, a
gdk/gtk browser would be the first one to support them! I want it! This
is such a cool idea, I just can't get over it. Once you got something
working I'm definitly adding it to XmHTML.

Koen.
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