Hi Jonathan,
A promising emerging technology is being developed called "SVG glyphs for OpenType fonts". This will include colored and/or animated glyphs in OpenType fonts.
http://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype/
In theory, we can load the ISWA 2010 symbols as a 2-color font using the above specification. The resulting font file will not handle the 2-dimensional placement, but it will be able to be installed on the client side. The resulting font would support the entire symbol set of the ISWA 2010.
In theory, we could load the current symbol SVGs into a font that would support the Unicode specification being published next year. The resulting file would be 2 to 6 MB.
If this worked, it would be a viable alternative to an image server for SignWriting. The 2-dimensional placement of symbols would be handled with HTML and CSS on the client side.
In particular, the Incubator project would need to be rewritten to position the individual symbols rather than request a completed sign, but it would save a lot of bandwidth because we wouldn't need to download the SVGs for each new signs.
Regards,
-Steve
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