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56_ ,
@56_@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about fonts containing WASM code… It feels like we’re overcomplicating things a bit.

sunred ,
@sunred@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Don’t you want to run an ai assistant directly from your favourite font? /s

FooBarrington ,

Fonts have been programs for a long time. Better to have the code in a safe VM than natively executed.

56_ ,
@56_@lemmy.ml avatar

Do you have a link for that, or a term I can search for? I’m not finding anything about it.

FooBarrington ,

Here are a couple of links that should be good starting points:

superuser.com/…/can-truetype-fonts-contain-malici…

…stackexchange.com/…/how-can-a-font-be-used-for-p…

56_ ,
@56_@lemmy.ml avatar

That is interesting. WASM seems like it’s just a replacement for the TrueType hinting language (which is already a VM). So I guess it’s benefiting from a more standardised and audited virtual machine.

It’s also fairly limited to what it can do (source):

you can influence the process of mapping a string of characters into an array of glyphs, you can determine how those glyphs are positioned and their advance widths, but you cannot manipulate outlines, variations, line breaks, or affect text layout between texts of different font, variation, language, script or OpenType feature selection

I don’t see how the mentioned future drawing API will fit into that though.

FooBarrington ,

Yeah, the real benefit will be the ability to re-use well tested and hopefully even proven WASM VMs.

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