RE: Minutes, 16 February 2011 WebFonts WG telcon

> What does @font-face mean, though? Browsers parsing CSS will have a good
> understanding of whether a URL is inside or outside @font-face.
> However, other -- say, browser extensions -- can also read style sheets
> and DOM can expose URLs. How will one ensure that URLs found inside @font-
> face are always tagged as such further down in the pipeline?

It would only apply to fonts downloaded by the browser per the @font-face rule 
for the purpose of rendering  text. Browser add-ons are out of scope, as are
XHR requests for the resource or any other access that is not the result of
the UA using the font to layout text.

Received on Friday, 18 February 2011 21:21:46 UTC