Re: [Indic-computing-devel] From IndLinux List

[Arun S. <ar...@sh...>]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:43:51AM +0000, à??à?²à¥?à?? Alok wrote:
> Mozilla being a crossplatform browser, it would be a good thing if it has in
> built indic rendering support - that way we're enabling indic support for the
> browsers for win*, *nix and mac in one shot.

Doesn't make sense to me. Mozilla uses the native graphics toolkit on each
platform (though a wrapper might be written around them). Why not apply
the same strategy to fonts ? Why reinvent the wheel ?

Win XP, Linux (IndiX, XFreeST) and Mac OS X, all have support for OT
fonts. Further, why do you want to bloat a browser that often gets
criticized for slow startup times and memory hogging ?

Building "Indic support" into most applications (not all) is a losing
game. What we need to do is build "Unicode support" in applications and
then add Indic support to the platform of interest (such as Linux, BSDs).

	-Arun