Comments on: Q&A with developers of Tafiti, Jackson Fish Market

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Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:47:41 +0000

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By: Serg

Serg — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:05:26 +0000

Usefull information, but as for me nothing more

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:54:20 +0000

I do have DBCS fonts on my system, so I lean towards believing that Silverlight requires fonts to be embedded in it for use. But then it’s surprising that cyrillic fonts would be supported. It’s a bit of a mystery!

By: William

William — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:07:35 +0000

I was a little skeptic about Jackson Fish Market (the way you praised them for theyrebeatiful.com), but I must say that this is great stuff they are bringing to the table. I don’t usually comment much, but the site seems well done and thought out. Good work guys!

P.S: I have a secret crush on Jenny, don’t tell her about it

By: tom

tom — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:53:34 +0000

Paul, that’s a very good question. I would assume that Silerlight only supports fonts installed on the users computer. Flash Player works in the same way. However, Flash allows you to package the required front with the content.

Would be interesting to find out how Silverlight handles fonts.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:47:15 +0000

Why doesn’t it support DBCS fonts such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean? it just turns them into squares. Russian and European extended chars seem to work fine, so I suspect it’s a font issue more than an encoding issue. Is this a weakness of Silverlight or something the designers forgot about?

By: rajo

rajo — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:05:21 +0000

I am not sure I like the imagery. I am not a big fan of real-world metaphors when it comes to computer UI. There are nice touches usage-wise, though.