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Time-Honored Practices of Typographic Excellence.  Oh, Sure.

XML.com: SVG and Typography: Characters [May. 12, 2004].  The idea of "time-honored" translated to typography in conjunction with SVG caught my eye.  Well, I'm not so sure.  For one thing, there doesn't seem to be much about typography here, it is about bad practices for conveying textual information.  I can't believe, simply can't believe that this article deprecates the use of character entities in favor of numeric character references, and then thinks that using the bloody numbers is going to somehow work around a character-set-encoding problem.  So, the obvious question is, if SVG is used within XHTML, how does this story play out (and how could Adobe have let such a weird implementation pitfall pass through their hands into an SVG viewer).  So, even recent time-honored principles, those that accompany the PostScript specification, are not time-honored in SVG "typography."

Ick.
posted by Dennis at 5/12/2004 06:28:15 PM