Great, Henry! Do we already have a Wiki page where we can assemble the
information? I"ll do some research on what can be done in HTML5 with
CSS2/3.
On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
Along the lines of this discussion, I'm interested in incorporating
features from the new Text Layout Framework for Flash (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/
) into LzText
and LzInputText.
The Text Layout Framework says it provides:
Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems
including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the
major writing systems of India, and others
Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and
linked containers, and around inline images
Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and
justifier for East Asian typography
Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures,
typographic case, digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens
Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for
editing
Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and
create custom text components.
It would be good to know what the intersection is between the HTML 5
and CSS 3 text features and the Flash Text Layout Framework. Then we
could decide which new features we try to make cross platform APIs
for.
I'm about to update the version of Flex 4 in the Laszlo compiler to
the last 'stable build' from Adobe, which is 4.0.0.6898 Thu May 14,
2009. When I do this, there will be a version of the text layout
framework libraries which should be usable for experimenting in
Flash 10 with.
