[webkit-dev] WebKit compatibility in India

[Brett Wilson]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
>
> I think the general approach you outline makes sense. I think the best way
> to avoid transcoding content that shouldn't be is to key it off of both font
> and site, assuming that a relatively limited list of fonts and sites would
> provide enough compatibility.
>
> That means the transcoding would have to be done late, once styles are
> resolved. This is entirely feasible; CSS text-transform already does late
> transformation of text based on styles, and it works right with copy/paste
> and everything:
>
> <div style="text-transform: uppercase">this is a test</div>

That's very interesting, I had not thought about this ability and
figured it would have to be added. I was leaning toward not doing
anything because of the complexity I saw in this project, but now it
seems like this could be practical.

Brett