[Egyptian] Web browser test for hieroglyphic (December 2016)

[Bob Richmond]

Thanks all for replies.

Stéphane, Nigel. I've updated blog post with a note on Safari on iOS/macOS. I'd be surprised if Apple don't fix bug/add feature/whatever in 2017 meanwhile Firefox on Mac appears full-featured.

Has anyone tried Firefox on iOS? I wouldn't expect it to work any better since Apple only allow Mozilla to ship a wrapper-type browser, not full native Firefox. But would be pleased to be proved wrong. Is anyone running Apple betas?

Serge. Yes, the HEP site uses javascript, hopefully <noscript> users are used to this as most websites do but thanks for reminder must document sometime.

Frédéric. Check version of Android on your S6. I'd expect stacking to work on Android v6.0.1 (Marshmallow) - that or later should be available from Samsung. I think OpenType font features were missing before Android API level 21 (5.0 Lollipop) so anything older is a no-go for stacking the rest is down to vendor enthusiasm for after-sale support of Android phones and tablets.

John. Yes its an image resolution thing, The OpenType fonts are scalable so render smooth as you observed. Win10 has a solid OpenType implementation (as does Pango/HarfBuzz for Linux etc.).

Simon. The empty boxes in the in-development lirious browser seem to be because only the first @font-face css web font load is being applied (the page uses 3 web fonts). Missing stacking in lirious on Win7 is probably a lirious bug - CSS processing or deeper text layout. I think Chrome uses standard win7 APIs for text shaping so should work for lirious too.

Bob
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