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Re: Hebrew input widget for html on Java
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> As much as I know, no one did. The Walla chat guys did something, but
> they're DRAWING each letter, so it's VERY slow (although works perfectly
> on my Linux, and it's kinda nice to write in hebrew on the chat on Linux).
FYI the X font server does just that when it scales a font internally,
then caches the drawing bitmap for later use... this is the only known way
to store fonts and allow them to be inifinitely-scalable without jaggies
and other artifacts.
Peter