Yup. Pixel perfect text layout is the kicker.
There’s currently three approaches to this problem that I know of:
1) Google Docs separates words (and sometimes letters) into separate divs and
places each div separately. Selection rectangles and cursors are separate divs
that are imposed over the
>Applications that rely on pixel perfect text layout can not use the
>browser DOM because most everything in the browser world it is
>dependent on what browser and OS you use. This has led companies like
>Prezi, who is trying to get off FP, to use Emscripten for HarfBuzz in
>the browser then t
Hi Joel,
Long time ago, someone mentioned this project: http://lightspark.github.io
I have no idea if it will help you or not.
Regarding FlexJS, in these early days, we are punting on pixel-perfect
text. I have hope that someday, a few dedicated volunteers will take a
shot at pixel-perfect text'
Thanks for the reply Mike. Sorry I didn't realize how well documented the
"open source parts of Flash" argument is.
Applications that rely on pixel perfect text layout can not use the browser
DOM because most everything in the browser world it is dependent on what
browser and OS you use. This has
>Long story short we are trying to do what the Flash Player does outside of
>Flash. We have seen other companies have success using Emscripten and asm.js
>so if Adobe could open source parts of the Flash Player then we could get some
>of the Flash Player functionality in javascript. FTE and the
