LGTM3 On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 4:44 PM Chris Harrelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> LGTM2 > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2022, 7:41 AM Philip Jägenstedt <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> LGTM1, I'm very happy to see this ship. I tried out >> https://roettsch.es/montecarlo.html in Firefox and Safari, and those are >> some very swishy swashes, looking forward to that demo also working in >> Chrome :) >> >> And the tests are here: >> >> https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-fonts?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=font-variant-alternates >> >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 3:50 PM Dominik Röttsches <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Contact [email protected] >>> >>> Explainer / Specification >>> https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#font-variant-alternates-prop >>> (This section contains details examples including images on how this >>> feature enables easier activation of font features.) >>> >>> Summary >>> >>> font-variant-alternates enables simpler access to glyph alternates in >>> fonts such as swashes, character-variants, ornaments and more. It provides >>> an easier method over having to use 4-letter-codes (e.g. 'swsh', 'cv01'...) >>> as arguments to font-feature-settings. font-variant-alternates refers >>> to the @font-feature-values at-rule to map speaking feature names to >>> OpenType feature numbers. In the font-variant-alternates style rule, >>> the requested feature activation becomes easy to use and to read and allows >>> flexible combination of font features. >>> >>> >>> *Motivation* >>> >>> As *part of Interop 2022* we committed to supporting >>> font-variant-alternates and @font-feature-values in order to reach parity >>> with Firefox and Safari on this aspect of OpenType feature selection >>> through CSS. >>> >>> >>> The ergonomics of font-variant-alternates are better than having to know >>> OpenType feature codes and passing them to font-feature-settings. >>> >>> >>> Blink componentBlink>Fonts >>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EFonts> >>> >>> TAG reviewShipping in two browsers for a long time. >>> >>> TAG review statusNot applicable >>> >>> Risks >>> >>> >>> Interoperability and Compatibility >>> >>> Low, extensively tested in WPT, shipped in Firefox and Safari. >>> >>> >>> *Gecko*: Shipped/Shipping ( >>> https://caniuse.com/?search=font-variant-alternates) Shipped in Firefox >>> since 34. >>> >>> *WebKit*: Shipped/Shipping ( >>> https://caniuse.com/?search=font-variant-alternates) Shipped in Safari >>> since 9.1 >>> >>> *Web developers*: Web developers opinions were taken into account in >>> the interop 2022 process - so I'd tend to say the fact it's part of Interop >>> 2022 indicates: "positive". >>> >>> *Other signals*: https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022 - font-variant-alternates >>> amounts to 16% improvement in the Fonts and Typography Category of Interop >>> 2022, about ~1% of the total score. >>> >>> Ergonomics >>> >>> This feature provides an ergonomics improvement over >>> font-feature-settings. >>> >>> >>> Activation >>> >>> Developers can immediately benefit from this feature when they write >>> their own @font-feature-values mappings to font features, based on the >>> font's documentation or tools such as https://wakamaifondue.com/. On >>> top of that, if the font foundry provides a @font-feature-values block, it >>> becomes even easier to activate font features. >>> >>> >>> WebView application risks >>> >>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such >>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? >>> >>> >>> >>> Debuggability >>> >>> The font-variant-alternates property is debugged through DevTools as >>> usual. This way parsing issues or invalid values can be detected. There's >>> no extra support for the @font-feature-values rule. >>> >>> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, >>> Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?Yes >>> >>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests >>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> >>> ?Yes >>> >>> Flag nameAtm available behind experimental web platform features (sson >>> in Canary, from 12/8/22) >>> >>> Requires code in //chrome?False >>> >>> Tracking bughttps://crbug.com/716567 >>> >>> Sample linkshttps://roettsch.es/montecarlo.html >>> >>> Estimated milestones >>> >>> 110 >>> >>> Anticipated spec changes >>> >>> None >>> >>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status >>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5070560260784128 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAN6muBsWXm4CYzT_%2BsTVW8X%3DKMJfkmVEv40_QHTjmDOV%3DSwAHA%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAN6muBsWXm4CYzT_%2BsTVW8X%3DKMJfkmVEv40_QHTjmDOV%3DSwAHA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "blink-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAARdPYdt3od%3DoYYcYXq-Dx%3DOryTdDrOUCcQtbNvPrLsDqUfbBw%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAARdPYdt3od%3DoYYcYXq-Dx%3DOryTdDrOUCcQtbNvPrLsDqUfbBw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "blink-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAOMQ%2Bw-syzvSEUfAbh2JmrRd-7nPy9yckeS%3D6pYZ-wKEhpa42A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAOMQ%2Bw-syzvSEUfAbh2JmrRd-7nPy9yckeS%3D6pYZ-wKEhpa42A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. 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