The CSS font-face property is great for web typography. Having to use images in order to get the correct typeface is a great sadness; one should be able to use vectors.See also my discussion of the terror of web fonts.
However, the TrueType renderers on many platforms have never been part of the attack surface before and putting them on the front line is a scary proposition. Esp on platforms like Windows where it's a closed-source blob running with high privilege.
Thus, the OpenType Condom (OTC) is designed to parse and serialise OpenType files, validating them and sanitising them as it goes. Most significantly, it removes hinting bytes from the files as it processes.
opentype condom
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dremel
They published a paper on Dremel, my favorite previously-unpublished tool from the Google toolchest. Greg Linden discusses it: "[...] it is capable…
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treemaps
I finally wrote up my recent adventures in treemapping, complete with nifty clickable visualizations.
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As described elsewhere, I've quit LiveJournal. If you're interested in my continuing posts, you should look at one of these (each contains feed…
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dremel
They published a paper on Dremel, my favorite previously-unpublished tool from the Google toolchest. Greg Linden discusses it: "[...] it is capable…
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treemaps
I finally wrote up my recent adventures in treemapping, complete with nifty clickable visualizations.
