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Have you tried them though? Now check it out with kerning and/or italics. Do you see overhanging when you draw the rectangular box found via the API? Good examp
by Cymen 11y ago
Have you tried them though? Now check it out with kerning and/or italics. Do you see overhanging when you draw the rectangular box found via the API? Good example is strings that end with a character like f.
Works in theory. In practice, it does not. That is what I found but again, I'd be happy to be wrong.
- jarek-foksa 11y agoThat's interesting, the computed bbox seems to be slightly off on Chrome when I apply "italic" font style.
- Cymen 11y agoWhen working on it a year ago at another employer, we had a list of edge cases. I don't recall them all but some were off by quite a bit. Enough so that the work around was to do everything in SVG except text and use plain DOM position on top for text. That was a bit better. It would be wonderful to do everything in SVG.