FirefoxSummit/2006/ProposedSessions/Text and Typography
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Session Title
Text And Typography
Session Leader
Robert O'Callahan
Summary
We are reworking Gecko text infrastructure to support higher quality typography, to better support I18N, and (hopefully) for better performance. This session is to talk about where we're at and what still needs to be done for Gecko 1.9 and beyond.
Agenda
- Why typography matters
- Ligatures, kerning, the competitive landscape
- I18N
- New textrun abstraction
- Textrun API overview
- New textframe
- Features: hyphenation, complete clustering support
- Cross-DOM-node textrun construction
- Demo
- Discuss how this fits with SVG, MathML, I18N
- Need for new linebreaker API; discuss options
- Discuss changes to line breaking algorithm
- Discuss Auto-hyphenation
Interested Attendees
Please add your name here if you're likely to attend this session, this will help prioritize sessions and minimize conflicts.
- tor
- David Baron
- Christopher Aillon
- Simon Montagu
- Sheppy
- biesi
- Axel Hecht
- ispiked
- Jeff Walden (want to attend, depends on schedule)
- rbs
- stuart
- Stan Shebs
- timeless
- robcee
- Crowder
- Masayuki Nakano