Thursday, July 28, 2011

Firefox 5 on OS X Supports Proper Syriac Connections




Well, I was pretty surprised when I was working on a bit of Syriac-related tomfoolery when I noticed -- completely caught off-guard, mind -- that Firefox 5 for Mac OS X properly renders Syriac OpenType fonts.

I haven't tested to see if it's also the case with other OpenType fonts with character joinings, but hey that's a step in the right direction!

Peace,
-Steve
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3 comments:

  1. michaelJuly 30, 2011 at 8:33 AM

    Hi, the fonts are also proper rendered in IE 9 running on Windows 7. We're getting close indeed :).

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  2. Rich GrieseAugust 4, 2011 at 12:24 PM

    Dear Steve

    I posted a comment on a religion site that you are involved in, but it never seemed to get published, so I thought I would try to contact you here.

    What happened to Neil Godfrey’s http://vridar.wordpress.com and Stephan Huller’s http://stephanhuller.blogspot.com/ ? Both those blogs had been stedily rising over the last few months. Now I don’t see them anywhere?

    Cheers! RichGriese.NET

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  3. Steve CarusoAugust 4, 2011 at 1:13 PM

    Rich,

    In the future, feel free to discuss Library-related stuff on the Librarian blog here:

    http://bibliobloglibrary.wordpress.com

    Huller's site *is* currently being archived by the Library and is categorized as a Related Blog.

    Godfrey's along with about 330+ other entries, are on the "to do list" as I am re-designing the entire signup workflow.

    Peace,
    -Steve

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