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Hi Steve,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/3/2014 11:21 AM, Stephen E
Slevinski Jr wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:540731F6.3000808@signpuddle.net" type="cite">Hi
Jonathan,
<br>
<br>
A promising emerging technology is being developed called "SVG
glyphs for OpenType fonts". This will include colored and/or
animated glyphs in OpenType fonts.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype/">http://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype/</a>
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It project seems to be at proposal stage since November 2013. <br>
It was supposed to be discussed in January 2014 but haven't
found anything more about it
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-wg/2013OctDec/0020.html">http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-wg/2013OctDec/0020.html</a>)<br>
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The only two examples I found only work in FireFox not in Chrome<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/opentype-svg/GeckoEmoji.html">https://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/opentype-svg/GeckoEmoji.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/opentype-svg/soccer.html">https://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/opentype-svg/soccer.html</a><br>
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So this might still be a technology of the future.<br>
<br>
On the page there is a link to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://manufacturaindependente.com/colorfont/">http://manufacturaindependente.com/colorfont/</a> and
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://manufacturaindependente.com/colorfont/workshop-lgm2012.html">http://manufacturaindependente.com/colorfont/workshop-lgm2012.html</a>
which might be quite useful for us too and works in other browsers
beside FireFox. We would need to implement a colorfont to work with
the javascript.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:540731F6.3000808@signpuddle.net" type="cite">In
theory, we can load the ISWA 2010 symbols as a 2-color font using
the above specification. The resulting font file will not handle
the 2-dimensional placement, but it will be able to be installed
on the client side. The resulting font would support the entire
symbol set of the ISWA 2010.
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My previous post about web fonts, is similar but I had thought of
doing the two color overlaying in CSS in a style sheet instead of
the in the font.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:540731F6.3000808@signpuddle.net" type="cite">
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In theory, we could load the current symbol SVGs into a font that
would support the Unicode specification being published next year.
The resulting file would be 2 to 6 MB.
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If this worked, it would be a viable alternative to an image
server for SignWriting. The 2-dimensional placement of symbols
would be handled with HTML and CSS on the client side.
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That would be great!<br>
Regards,<br>
Jonathan<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:540731F6.3000808@signpuddle.net" type="cite">
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In particular, the Incubator project would need to be rewritten to
position the individual symbols rather than request a completed
sign, but it would save a lot of bandwidth because we wouldn't
need to download the SVGs for each new signs.
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Regards,
<br>
-Steve
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