Re:Proving the Turing Completeness of Fonts
by yorwba on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:02PM
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> Javascript is unable to access information about actual glyphs rendered or other "font-internal" calculations.
Just render the text to a canvas and read out the pixel data to see the glyphs, a.k.a. canvas fingerprinting. I'm not sure whether getting clever with the font would reveal any information you can't get more easily, though.
Just render the text to a canvas and read out the pixel data to see the glyphs, a.k.a. canvas fingerprinting. I'm not sure whether getting clever with the font would reveal any information you can't get more easily, though.