Kommentare zu: Kerning and OpenType features in Firefox 3

Von: ralfherrmann

ralfherrmann — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:56:31 +0000

I’d like for Firefox to use more discretionary ligatures, particularly looped “sc” and “st”.

Those things cannot be on by default! We would need some CSS properties first, to control these OpenType feautures. So this should rather be proposed to those guys.

Von: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:39:28 +0000

I’m sure I’m not alone in this. I’d like for Firefox to use more discretionary ligatures, particularly looped “sc” and “st”. In Libertine, these are grouped in “hlig”, where the regular ligatures are in “liga”. Can I persuade Firefox to use them? I would happily build Firefox (actually Iceweasel, on Debian) by myself, if necessary.

Hint?

Von: dyn

dyn — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:20:58 +0000

FF3 RC3 == FF3 Final. So if it’s fixed in the final release it’s fixed in RC3. Since RC3 was only one bug fix (FF3 crashing a lot on the Mac) you can even say it was fixed in RC2. Mostly problems in FF have to do with a faulty profile or some extension messing up.

Von: chris

chris — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:07:53 +0000

Hrishi - you don’t, that’s the whole point, the font you use just does it automatically, assuming it has the ligatures built in.

Von: Hrishi

Hrishi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:52:04 +0000

Wow. How do I write text with “ligatures” on my webpage?

Von: Jon Whipple

Jon Whipple — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:02:54 +0000

Ralf, this is a great visual comparison. Thanks for the information. using the icon above the example text is a great visual device as well.

Von: ralfherrmann

ralfherrmann — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:54:22 +0000

I heard the worst of those bugs were fixed in the final release. My test were with FF 3 RC3 on Mac.

Von: Jens Kutilek

Jens Kutilek — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:51:38 +0000

Ralf, are you sure about the discretionary ligatures being used and the Bickham Script “something” example? I can’t reproduce it with the released FF 3.0/Mac.

Von: Todd Dominey

Todd Dominey — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:47:11 +0000

These additions would certainly be more useful if both OS X and Windows shipped with more “shared” typefaces that designers could tap into. Here’s wishing those Vista typefaces some day make their way across the pond. There are some nice humanist sans in there.

Von: Chizu

Chizu — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:43:22 +0000

Here’s a quick test case I made
http://mymapofjapan.com/styles.html

Not sure about all the font names, and I used some extras. Probably only works on a mac unless you’ve installed the fonts I used.