Nicu Buculei wrote:
Haakon Meland Eriksen wrote:
I doubt embedding fonts is the way to go, if it was, why isn't it used?
There are really only 3 solutions I know, I want a fourth. :)
Firefox 3 is close to release and it does full page zoom.
Thanks, great news!
- Text is not treated as text by Firefox, which means you cannot search > and more seriously - you cannot select and copy (being mindful of > copyright or copyleft).
Yeah, the search does not work, but I believe the feature will be added to Firefox once it will be needed enough.As for select and copy, sure, it would be nice to have, but license-wise for the time being, the workaround of looking at the source and copying from there is not that bad.
You and I know this workaround is possible, but we are the minority. The majority report will be quite different: this sucks.
Chicken and egg: browsers will improve at a slow page until there are no pages made with SVG and we will not create SVG websites until the browsers are good enough. We can wait until the browsers improve (and hope the development will not be derailed by other priorities) or push SVG websites and force them to improve.
I wonder if that is really true. I choose option number three - short term value, proprietary secrets and time to market was more important ten years ago than open standards and long term solutions like SVG are today.