- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:58:18 -0700 (PDT)
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Cc: Vladimir Levantovsky <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>, Adam Langley <agl@google.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, Christopher Slye <cslye@adobe.com>, www-font@w3.org, public-webfonts-wg@w3.org, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@googlemail.com>
John Hudson wrote: > Jonathan Kew wrote: > > Just as image viewers can reasonably be expected to display a JPEG > > even if the EXIF data is junk - provided the file is structurally > > sound so that the actual image data can be interpreted - so also UAs > > should proceed to render fonts even if the metadata is junk, > > provided the file is structurally sound. > > I think that is reasonable, so long as the metadata is simply ignored. > What I would like to avoid is any situation in which the UA strips the > metadata. I'm not at all clear on what "stripping" the metadata means here. After a WOFF file is downloaded, the user agent reconstitutes the font data, activates it and uses the font. The metadata, well-formed or not, is not involved. When a user wants to view font data, the user agent looks at the metadata and displays it or displays an error noting that it's not well-formed. Regards, John Daggett
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