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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no go
Two friends of mine were pretty enthusiastic about the Go language, so I tried writing a program in it yesterday. It is frustrating because despite…
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playing with vala
I actually was toying with making something like Vala back in college. It's pretty cute. Much like using the sane subset of C++, as you write code…
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