[whatwg] Canvas: Fonts in workers

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> We could possibly still use the the FontLoader interface if we do the following:
>> * FontLoader needs to drop the dependency on CSSFontFaceRule (or at
>> least make the dependency optional and not available in workers).
>> * We'll expose a global FontLoader object per worker scope.
>> * The worker can't use any downloaded fonts other than the ones loaded
>> through the global FontLoader for that scope.
>
> My expectation was that this is how FontLoader would work for workers. (We
> can't rely on what fonts are in the Document since that's shared state,
> and workers try to avoid shared state as a design principle.)

Sure, but FontLoader is tightly coupled with the document since it
does not actually supply URLs for the fonts itself, it relies on
@font-face for that. It just indicates whether the font is loaded or
that it should be loaded.


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