- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:24:57 -0700
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Christopher Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Sylvain Galineau<sylvaing@microsoft.com> wrote: >>Then, as part of that spec, we would have a table to hold a machine >>readable license, different sets of embedding bits (for document, web, >>pdf, e-book, etc, use) - fields to hold such data as serial number and >>so on, and whatever else font foundries and vendors think they need, all >>held right in the font. > Several browser vendors object to enforcing rules embedded in a resource; whether rootstrings or embedding bits, this is > Something that has been discussed and rejected a number of times afaik. That is one of the core issues, for certain. I think many font vendors will be slow to embrace web fonts without this. However, at least a couple of the biggest and most key vendors seem amenable, so the current compromise direction can still get some large/key players. Cheers, T
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