On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:45:16 +0100 Russell Hafter - Lists <rh.li...@phone.coop> wrote:
> But while that may be a reason, it does not explain the need > for font scanning *to me*. Sorry. If it doesn't scan them, it doesn't know which fonts have which glyphs in, meaning it won't make good use of them. > 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. Font scanning is done there too; and just like NetSurf's RUfl does, it is shared between all applications that use it. The problem under RISC OS is that only two (that I know off) applications use RUfl. B.
