Author: ravidreams_03
Description:
Hi,
Please check the screenshots at
http://www.browserstack.com/screenshots/3b00b12cb9e6a604ebc8b227b1f4f1050f412e51
The webfonts are not getting displayed in Samsung Galaxy S II, Motorola Droid, Razr and HTC One X
And for the devices that display web fonts, they already can display a system font without any issue. So, there is no use of web font here. If you would like to check a non-web font driven Tamil Unicode site, you can test my blog http://blog.ravidreams.net
In iPad 3rd (6.0) and OS X Snow Leopard Safari 5.1, the fonts are getting broken and scrambled. ZERO readability. Please note that they could display system font without any issue.
For your info:
- Older versions of iOS do not support OpenType shaping. The embedded Web font appears to be OpenType and may not contain AAT tables. This is why the Tamil Unicode text appeared broken.
- In Mac OS X, OpenType support was only added in 10.7 (Lion). This is why the text appeared broken in Snow Leopard as it does not support OpenType.
- The best way to handle older versions of iOS and Mac OS X is to add AAT tables alongside OpenType tables.
- Android 4.0.x will support OpenType in the browser. Full system-wide support for Tamil started with 4.1. For versions prior to these, whether you have web font or not is irrelevant.
So, the case is: Is the implementation of web fonts really useful for languages like Tamil?
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal