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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Yair,<br>
          Two colors are needed because we need one for the back of hand
      usually black and another for the filling in the shape so that it
      isn't transparent and that is usually white.  Both are on the same
      glyph.<br>
      For number 4.  A font would only need to be downloaded once to
      show any number of pages.  So it would save bandwith in the
      longrun.  <br>
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      Regards,<br>
          Jonathan<br>
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      On 9/3/2014 8:25 PM, Yair Rand wrote:<br>
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        <div>I don't understand why is a 2-color font is necessary...</div>
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        <div>A few issues on using a font to supply the symbols on
          Incubator:</div>
        1. Having the colors inherited directly from the font color
        would solve some issues on the Incubator, such as getting the
        :visited colors to work, and getting past the heavy
        MutationObservers monitoring style changes. 
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          2. If the symbols themselves are actual simple text nodes in
          the document, wouldn't this interfere with copy-pasting signs?</div>
        <div>3. Is there an existing way to convert FSW straight to the
          Unicode symbols?</div>
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          4. 2-6 MB is rather large. The largest page currently on the
          ASL Incubator project loads approximately 1.3MB of images from
          SWIS. Would this actually generally save bandwidth?</div>
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          On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Stephen E Slevinski Jr <span
            dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:slevin@signpuddle.net" target="_blank">slevin@signpuddle.net</a>></span>
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            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.<br>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype/"
              target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype/</a><br>
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            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.<br>
            <br>
            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.<br>
            <br>
            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.<br>
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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.<br>
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            Regards,<br>
            -Steve
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