FirefoxSummit/2006/ProposedSessions/Text and Typography

Session Title

Text And Typography

Session Leader

Robert O'Callahan

Summary

We are reworking Gecko text infrastructure to support higher quality typography, to better support I18N, and (hopefully) for better performance. This session is to talk about where we're at and what still needs to be done for Gecko 1.9 and beyond.

Agenda

  • Overview of what's going on
    • New textframe
    • New textrun API
    • Platform textrun implementations
  • Discuss how this fits with SVG, I18N
  • New linebreaker API?
  • Changes to line breaking algorithm
  • Auto-hyphenation?

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