1001570 - provide a way to download and cache fonts that are useful for MathML

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Frédéric Wang (:fredw)]

This is bug 775060 for Android. Jonathan Kew suggested to package a math font in Android.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Bundling megabytes or even kilobytes of fonts is not something that is good for Firefox for Android. APK size affects download success and thus usage. This should be morphed to provide a way to seamlessly download and cache fonts that are useful for MathML.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Wang (:fredw)]

(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #1)
> Bundling megabytes or even kilobytes of fonts is not something that is good
> for Firefox for Android. APK size affects download success and thus usage.
> This should be morphed to provide a way to seamlessly download and cache
> fonts that are useful for MathML.

I agree that packaging fonts in the APK is bad. Bug 648548 and bug 619521 is probably what you suggest but I have not seen any progress on that (@Jonathan: what is the status?). Same for https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=36011 that I reported 2 years ago.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Wang (:fredw)]

We only need one MATH font. All possible open source candidates (STIX, Neo Euler, Asana, TeX Gyre *, Latin Modern) have size between 400-800kb. So that might be too much to be accepted by Android maintainers.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Wang (:fredw)]

Morphing the bug. I'll try to work on bug 648548 and bug 619521.

Comment 5

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