From: David Starner (dvdeug@fullnet.net)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 20:47:03 EST
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:38:42PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> It's not only excessive but also does not work at all for text-mode
> browsers (including browsers with speech synthesizer for the blind)
> that have no need for / interest in the internal structure of a font.
> Your scheme is going against the stream of separating the content from
> the presentation.
His scheme is a solution for a problem that is very hard to solve for
text-mode browsers. If you need to use a character not encoded in Unicode,
there are no solutions that will let a text-mode browser work well. The
normal solution of just specifing font face is hopeless. If you use
pictures, then the text-browser can read the names, but the graphical
browser can't resize the glyphs. If you use Pim's system, then the
program could read the names of the glyphs - not great, but arguably the
best of any solution given. I think the sad reality is, no matter how
you cut it, text-mode browsers are going to be locked out of anything
but a few scripts - xterm can only handle stuff that fits in its fixed
width range, and I'd suspect a speech synthesizer would handle a couple
languages at most; whether or not the Tengwar is properly encoded in
Unicode will be irrelevant.
-- David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro Einstein once said that it would be hard to teach in a co-ed college since guys were only looking on girls and not listening to the teacher. He was objected that they would be listening to _him_ very attentively, forgetting about any girls. But such guys won't be worth teaching, replied the great man.
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