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

Frédéric Grosshans frederic.grosshans at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 18:58:49 GMT 2017


Le 22/12/2016 à 12:08, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit :
> Le 21/12/2016 à 18:51, Bob Richmond a écrit :
>> 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.
>
> Andoid version 6.0.1 MMB29K.G920FXXS4DPJ2 , so it’s not an OS problem.
>
> But the browser is is Internet Version 4.0.10-53, and may not be up to 
> date (since I’m happy with Firefox). By the way, when I ask for the 
> “computer version” of your page, I only get tofu insted of the 
> hieroglyphs I have on the “mobile version”.
>
Samsung’s “Internet” just got updated to version 5.0.20-45 on my phone, 
and of course, my first move is to retest your hieroglyphs: stacking, 
bold and italics now works, both on the “mobile” and “computer version”, 
but not the colours are still missing.

   Cheers,

         Frédéric




More information about the Egyptian mailing list