Here's the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1323743

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Patrick Brosset <pbros...@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> The inspector in DevTools has a Fonts panel already. For now, it only
> lists the fonts currently used by the selected element. It can also list
> all fonts used on the page.
> We would love to make this panel more useful and expose things like
> variations. As Xidorn said, if we could have an API that lists those for
> us, then we could pretty easily add a UI to the panel that lets people
> explore the fonts.
> It sounds like that could be very useful.
>
> Finally, this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280162
> is about exposing OpenType features like ligature for a given font in the
> Fonts panel.
>
> And, related to this, we also have this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
> show_bug.cgi?id=1280163 where we would like to have the Fonts panel list
> all the glyphs that a font contains.
>
> I'll file a specific bug for the variations technology and will cc
> Jonathan.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/12/2016 19:04, Xidorn Quan wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016, at 01:28 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>>
>>>> DevTools bug: It's not yet clear to me whether specific DevTools work
>>>> will be needed, beyond the support we'll automatically get for a new CSS
>>>> property.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think DevTools may want to display a panel which lists all available
>>> variation axis supported by the font, and allow developers to adjust
>>> them.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, perhaps something like that would be useful. Though we don't do
>> anything along those lines for OpenType font features at present. If
>> DevTools is to start exposing details of "font capabilities", both features
>> and variations should be treated similarly.
>>
>> I think that makes it a broader topic, not directly linked to variations,
>> which would be just one among various details that could be exposed via a
>> DevTools "font inspector".
>>
>> JK
>>
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