Excellent! I would love to help out in this effort, Bear! Thanks, Myles
> On Jul 29, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Benjamin Poulain <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/29/14, 3:33 PM, Bear Travis wrote: >> On 7/29/14, 12:26 PM, "Benjamin Poulain" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 7/29/14, 11:38 AM, Dirk Schulze wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jul 29, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Bear Travis <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> WebKit has support for an older version of the CSS Font Loading >>>>> Specification [1], implemented back in 2013 [2]. I would like to bring >>>>> this work in line with the current version of the specification, and >>>>> enable it by default in the nightlies. The specification provides >>>>> support for coordinating font loading: querying if fonts have loaded, >>>>> requesting specific fonts to load, and providing notifications as fonts >>>>> are loading. >>>>> >>>>> Other browsers have a positive outlook on the feature. Chrome has >>>>> already shipped it [3], and Mozilla is in the process of implementing >>>>> it [4]. >>>> >>>> Do you want to implement it behind a compile time flag? IMO it is an >>>> important and great API. However, Cameron filed a lot of specifications >>>> but reports while implementing it [1]. So there might still be some >>>> issues to discover. >>>> >>>> I strongly support the implementation though. >>> >>> +1. >>> >> >> Yep, the implementation will be behind a compile time flag (the old >> implementation already is). That said, I would like to have it enabled by >> default in dev builds and the nightlies, both to get it into users’ hands >> for testing and to keep the bots running the tests. > > That's okay. > > The flags are useful to disable unfinished features when shipping (until they > are ready). You can enable a flag in nightly if the code is stable and has > good test coverage, the feature does not need to be complete. > > Successful examples are CSS Grid Layout and the Picture Element. Both are > work in progress, they are enabled in Nightly, but none of that code is > compiled into the released WebKit. > > Benjamin > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
