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

[Henry Minsky]

I started a wiki page for the text enhancements

http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Enhanced_Text_API

It's just a placeholder right now, I'll propose some actual API examples as
soon
as I get some experiments done.


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Raju Bitter <rajubitter at me.com> wrote:

> 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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-- 
Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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