In article <20090706092932.0493f...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>, Rob Kendrick <r...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:13:03 +0100 Russell Hafter - Lists > <rh.li...@phone.coop> wrote: > > In article > > <20090706003522.53717...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>, > > Rob Kendrick <r...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:03:02 +0100 Mike Hobbs > > > <mike.ho...@antplc.com> wrote: > > > > And all this trouble seems to be over fonts which > > > > NetSurf is never likely to use. > > > But NetSurf doesn't know this unless it scans them. > > > The solution to people swapping their sets of fonts > > > all the time is to remove the reason for them > > > swapping fonts all the time. > > Do all other browsers actually go through this font > > scanning process, but not make it public in the way > > that NetSurf does? > None of the RISC OS ones support Unicode the way NetSurf > does, or to the extent NetSurf does. True. Having been involved in earlier discussions about unicode and NetSurf (at that time) failing to display certain eastern European characters I am well aware of this. But while that may be a reason, it does not explain the need for font scanning *to me*. Sorry. Also, I was thinking beyond RISC OS: what happens with other platforms, particularly with Opera and Firefox which run on quite a wide range of OSs. -- Russell Hafter - Mailing Lists rh.li...@phone.coop Need a hotel? <http://www.hrs.de/?client=en__MT&customerId=416873103> (NB This link needs Firefox to work)
