So script inside web page is bad, but script inside font is good? That's interesting definition of bloat. I'd prefer ordinary webpage using locally installed fonts with explicit JavaScript snippet to highlight keywords.
I view stuff like this kind of like code that fits into a bootloader or whatever. It’s really more of the technical challenge than to actually solve a problem. The result is much better if you just run a script on your hand-coded file to add syntax highlighting as DOM elements. Still, love seeing stuff like this.
Has anyone tried this with PowerPoint yet? Our org is very PowerPoint centric and always struggle a bit with the workflow for code.
Copy pasting from IntelliJ does give colours but none of the other niceties such as kerning or litigation. Screenshots are nice visually but a pain to maintain.
> Works in <textarea> and <input>! Syntax highlighting inside <textarea> has been previously impossible, because textareas and inputs can only contain plain text. This is where the interesting
Interesting indeed! This bit feels like a neat bit of hackery to keep in my back pocket for sure.
I have yet to see a good web based text editor with syntax highlighting. They all mess with the native search functionality of the browser. Because they can't just use a textarea for the edit area. With this approach, it would be possible.
I wonder how usable a Python version of this would be?
This is a curious sort of hazy modern mirror image of the world of Sinclair computers, that embedded their BASIC parsing in the keyboard driver — that is to say, it essentially wasn't possible to type a syntactically incorrect BASIC program.
Hmm, is there a simple way to force chrome to use this for view source and/or Inspect? (didn't see anything in the earlier thread either, but those are the two really obvious places that a font would be a reasonable approach...)
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This is a blocker for my applications.
[1] https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/
Copy pasting from IntelliJ does give colours but none of the other niceties such as kerning or litigation. Screenshots are nice visually but a pain to maintain.
Interesting indeed! This bit feels like a neat bit of hackery to keep in my back pocket for sure.
I have yet to see a good web based text editor with syntax highlighting. They all mess with the native search functionality of the browser. Because they can't just use a textarea for the edit area. With this approach, it would be possible.
I wonder how usable a Python version of this would be?
But then why does the color disappear if I disallow scripts on this page? Instead of your font, now it uses Consolas.
Are you using JS to load the font in? (if so... web fonts don't need JS to load =)
The whole post proves the opposite is true!
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