Downloadable Fonts and other wishes
Aidan Dysart (adysart) on Wed, 7 Aug 96 09:25 PDT
Something that I wanted to
see in a browser is support
for downloable fonts. All
you really need is a
standard, of which many
already exist. Truetype
fonts for example. Or maybe
some postscript type
format, or something
defining the typeface in
vectors. I know there are
Netscape plug-ins that
allow you to have vector
graphics inline, so how
hard could it be to throw
in postsript text? Also, a
feature that let you
determine the level of
Anti-aliasing would be
super nice. Other things it
would require:
- font caching
- point size
- dimensions (ie. horiz
and vert stretch)
While I'm at it, I might as
well, throw out my other
wishes too:
- Multiple layers of
transparency
- hard to implement,
because a new images format
that supports an 8-bit
alpha channel would be
needed. Do any already
exist? I mean ones that are
universally supported.
- coordinate-based layout
schemes
- This would make things
very easy, but seems hard
to implement and impossible
to write code for. Mayeb
being able to define
"blocks" and moving them
around? This with multiple
levels of transparancy
would really kick ass!
thanks,
Aidan
Dysart