[Laszlo-dev] Relevance of SWF8 runtime for OL 5.0 / support of Flash 10?

[Henry Minsky]

Along the lines of this discussion, I'm interested in incorporating features
from the new Text Layout Framework for Flash (
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/) into  LzText
and LzInputText.

The Text Layout Framework says it provides:


   - Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including
   Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the major writing
   systems of India, and others
   - Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked
   containers, and around inline images
   - Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and
   justifier for East Asian typography
   - Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic
   case, digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens
   - Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for
   editing
   - Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and
   create custom text components.

It would be good to know what the intersection is between the HTML 5 and CSS
3 text features and the Flash Text Layout Framework. Then we could decide
which new features we try to make cross platform APIs for.


I'm about to update the version of Flex 4 in the Laszlo compiler to the last
'stable build' from Adobe, which is 4.0.0.6898 Thu May 14, 2009. When I do
this, there will be a version of the text layout framework libraries which
should be usable for experimenting in Flash 10 with.
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