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

[Raju Bitter]

Great, Henry! Do we already have a Wiki page where we can assemble the  
information? I"ll do some research on what can be done in HTML5 with  
CSS2/3.

On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:

>
> 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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