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State of Text Rendering 2024
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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Here are a couple of links that should be good starting points:
https://superuser.com/questions/1202551/can-truetype-fonts-contain-malicious-code
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91347/how-can-a-font-be-used-for-privilege-escalation
That is interesting. WASM seems like it's just a replacement for the TrueType hinting language (which is already a VM). So I guess it's benefiting from a more standardised and audited virtual machine.
It's also fairly limited to what it can do (source):
I don't see how the mentioned future drawing API will fit into that though.
Yeah, the real benefit will be the ability to re-use well tested and hopefully even proven WASM VMs.