Re: .webfont Proposal

From: "Christopher Fynn" <cfynn@gmx.net>
> Interestingly
> <http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/07/07/engineering-windows-7-for-a-global-market.aspx>
> says:
>
> "In Windows 7, we needed a solution that would work for all languages and 
> for all fonts, so we created a hybrid approach that combines information 
> from the font itself with metadata (an XML file that provides the 
> information about the fonts on the system)."
>
> So obviously Microsoft already have developed their own XML metadata 
> format for fonts....

I'm not sure we talk about the same thing, here. It's a file that explains 
property of a font
to make data extraction more easy in Windows 7. It's not a font embedding 
format.

At least, it's not how I see the things.