- From: W3C Community Development Team <team-community-process@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:10:07 +0000
- To: public-svgopentype@w3.org
The implementation of SVG glyphs for OpenType in Firefox is well known. Recently however with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, I noticed that Microsoft Edge 14 also now supports them! Check to see what your browser supports! Unfortunately, there is currently a scaling bug which makes each SVG glyph twice as big as it should be. But I am sure that will be fixed pretty soon. Compare these SVG glyphs vs. inline SVG, in Firefox and then in Edge 14. A little digging reveals even better news - this isn't an Edge-specific update. Instead DirectWrite and Direct2D have been updated to support SVG in OpenType (also the Google CBDT colored PNG glyphs and the undocumented but reverse-engineered Apple sbix colored raster format. (This is in addition to the existing COLR/CPAL support that has been there since Windows 8.1). Amusingly, this means that Edge 14 has better support for the Google-originated CBDT fonts than Google Chrome itself has, due to a bug in the Chrome OpenType sanitizer which rejects CBDT fonts for not having a glyf table. This means that Chrome will currently only display CBDT fonts that are installed, not ones loaded by @font-face. ---------- This post sent on SVG glyphs for OpenType Community Group 'Chromatic fonts - implementation roundup' https://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype/2016/08/15/chromatic-fonts-implementation-roundup/ Learn more about the SVG glyphs for OpenType Community Group: https://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype
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