Re: .webfont Proposal 2

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Håkon Wium Lie<howcome@opera.com> wrote:
> 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.

Certainly. I was assuming that was part of what would happen in this scenario.

Cheers,

T

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