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In the future, there are no fonts. We will just send and receive streams of strokes. And then people who need it will use OCR to translate into text. Which w
by VikingCoder 4y ago
In the future, there are no fonts. We will just send and receive streams of strokes.
And then people who need it will use OCR to translate into text. Which won't always work very well.
- hnarn 4y agoWhat are you talking about? There's an example right here of how you would use it: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/colrv1-fonts/ https://developer.chrome.com/blog/colrv1-fonts/ More specifically: <div class="spicy" contenteditable spellcheck="false">hackernews</div> The text is right there. It's still HTML.
- VikingCoder 4y agoI'm painting the progression of where this is going. I'm not trying to describe this effort. I'm legit worried that Unicode will eventually fail, and we'll all just be sending streaming SVG to each other.
- hnarn 4y agoWhat’s your basis for believing this will happen? If anything the state of accessibility has improved over the past 20 years, not gotten worse.