Re: [OpenFontLibrary] The future of OFLB development

2012-12-25 Thread Daniel Johnson
Having looked at the required data model more in depth, and looking at my own feature wish list, I'm no longer convinced that Drupal is the right tool for this job. (Drupal doesn't handle hierarchical data models very elegantly.) I'd be curious to see what MediaWiki could do. From my own

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] The future of OFLB development

2012-12-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25 December 2012 15:55, Daniel Johnson il.basso.bu...@gmail.com wrote: Having looked at the required data model more in depth, and looking at my own feature wish list, I'm no longer convinced that Drupal is the right tool for this job. (Drupal doesn't handle hierarchical data models very

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] The future of OFLB development

2012-12-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25 December 2012 16:09, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: I'd start with a better question: what place in the modern ecosystem should OFLB be aiming at? When we started it, there was no TypeKit, no GFS, no half a dozen other web fonts foundries. What makes OFLB

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] The future of OFLB development

2012-12-25 Thread vernon adams
I have been thinking for a while (have i not mentioned it?) That I thought oflb should have a bone fide web font server, where web authors can serve the fonts with a single line in the head tag a la GWF. -v Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: On 25 December 2012 16:09, Alexandre Prokoudine

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] The future of OFLB development

2012-12-25 Thread vernon adams
I can see that is an issue :-) but then you are looking only for future developments that do not generate serious bandwidth. I wonder what sort of bandwidth a full on oflb font server could generate? Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: On 25 December 2012 21:11, vernon adams