Pim Blokland wrote: > Doug Ewell wrote: > >> (..) the scenario Pim describes might work (although >> asking a browser to interpret the internal structure of a font file >> seems excessive to me). But the same mechanism is less likely to
> Is it really so excessive? Browsers already have to retrieve a lot > of font info, like the line height and such. Why not character It's not only excessive but also does not work at all for text-mode browsers (including browsers with speech synthesizer for the blind) that have no need for / interest in the internal structure of a font. Your scheme is going against the stream of separating the content from the presentation. Jungshik Shin
