Font Validator report viewing works on Linux

Hin-Tak Leung
Hin-Tak Leung Posts: 363
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The screenshot tells it all:

http://htl10.users.sourceforge.net/FontVal-Linux-xml-tiled.png

For existing Linux users (probably very few besides me...), just grab "mono-webbrowser.dll" from 

https://github.com/HinTak/Font-Validator/tree/master/bin

and replace the one you had. Provided you have webkit and webkit-sharp installed, it should just work.

There is no code change in FontVal itself - it is all in the mono webbrowser bridge, which is an external project. Windows users don't need to worry about things changing (to the worse?) for them - there isn't any.

While fixing problems with mono's webkit bridge, I learned a great deal about webkit. One thing I learned is that Webkit on Linux is very different from webkit on Mac os X, so the same solution does not work on Mac os X. OTOH, some of that webkit knowledge probably will translate. Let's see.
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