GSoc:Week 6 Update

This week I started work on flask webfonts extension.I use mitsuhiko’s flask-extension-wizard for the scaffolding and added the webfonts module as blueprint. The css api is working smoothly and and I have started working on the gallery interface. The interface I made was based on twitter bootstrap and used some of the javascript components. Also there are a few bugs and the code is somewhat messy, so I will be rewriting it.

Also the current version of the extension comes with fonts included. I am trying to make it possible for users to add fonts to the repository. Currently this requires the user to use a folder inside the static folder of the main app. There are ways around this to serve fonts from any folder but these methods have security issues.

The extension also has to handle factory pattern apps. The extension at it’s current state can handle this but advanced features of the app object does not work. I have run into an issue with relative paths for specifying the font directory. Next objective will be to add all these missing features to the extension.

You can follow the development on github