- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:59:37 +0200
- To: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Cc: (wrong string) åkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Also sprach Thomas Phinney:
> > I'm not comfortable having root strings, even if the specification
> > says they can be ignored. For one, we could see heavy lobbying to
> > remove the "can be ignored" part in the next version of the
> > specification. Second, some judge somewhere could rule that his laws
> > (DMCA perhaps) trumps any specification and that implementations
> > therefore must "honor" root strings.
>
> Don't enforce the root string, just refuse to render a font with a
> root string at all. Anywhere.
That would take care of the legal problem. But unless all browsers
agree on this, interoperability suffers.
A better solution, I believe, is to remove root strings from the spec.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Saturday, 18 July 2009 15:00:50 UTC