[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 116797] Rename FontFallbackList to FontGlyphs

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Mon May 27 02:03:11 PDT 2013


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116797





--- Comment #5 from Antti Koivisto <koivisto at iki.fi>  2013-05-27 02:01:40 PST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Maybe it was a fallback list once. Nowadays its purpose is to cache realized glyphs and related data.
> 
> I don’t think that’s a good characterization. This object caches realized FontData objects—which are used to key into the glyph cache—but I wouldn’t call them “glyphs and related data”. Even the accessors on this class return FontData instances!

Suggestion welcome!

Note that the encapsulation and code moving in bug 116803 gave FontGlyphs a glyph API, significantly reducing need for direct FontData access. Also the vaguely named (Simple)FontData type is in fact largely about providing glyphs and information about glyphs.

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