Re: CSS support for font collections

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:
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> On 2016-08-11 03:19, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
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>> Hi Ken,
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>> That's interesting; but then the client needs to inspect the name table
>> of all faces before resolving the request.
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> I don't believe so. A url with a fragment identifier is resolved by
> stripping off the fragment, sending the resulting fragment-less url to the
> server, and resolving the fragment once the resource is returned.
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Sure, by resolving I meant: decide which face to use.


> So yes, it would need to look in the name table, but that table will be
> available.
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>> Also, currently name table is unused in webfonts.
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> Agreed, it currently is. The name used in the CSS for a font is unrelated
> to the name in the font (by design, partly to allow creation of compound
> fonts using @font-face. That was requested by Donald Knuth by the way).
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> Chris Lilley
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> Technical Director, W3C Interaction Domain
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