Chris Lilley 🏴
svgeesus@mastodon.scot
<p>“Father of SVG”. @W3C staff. Co-developed PNG, @font-face, WOFF. W3C rep to ICC. These days working on Web Fonts, Web Audio, CSS. He/him.</p>
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Post #4174488
16 years ago, the first public working draft of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) was published. WOFF is how downloadable fonts on the Web went from "no-one uses it" to "most sites use it". I reflected on this milestone in a blog post today: https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/woff-1-0-a-milestone-on-w3cs-journey-of-fonts-on-the-web/
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Post #1715010
CSS has just added an image form of light-dark(). So as well as choosing between a pair of colors based on light or dark mode, you can also choose between a pair of images. No you can&#39;t mix them because parsing would be hard. #CSS https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-5/#light-dark
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Post #1222724
RE: https://typo.social/@pixelambacht/116381192997863104 This is major. If you use web fonts to make websites then this is an indispensable tool.
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Post #885885
RE: https://mastodon.art/@Krita/116283788299866266 This is an exciting release! - HDR support - 10-bit display support - Full OpenType support - CSS palette support for chromatic fonts
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Post #885880
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@svgeesus/116297130910625950 Boosts for reach apprecited
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Post #813351
If you run a (recent) Linux, and you type `pngcheck` (with no arguments) what version number do you get? Feel free to respond with your Linux distro, if you want.