Not replacing OTF/TTF linking

Hi,

I wrote:
> As I understand it, this proposal is intended to *replace* OTF/TTF 
> font linking."

Sylvain Galineau wrote:
>
> Fwiw, it was also never a goal of the EOTL proposal to replace 
> anything, or even suggest that it should do so. 
>
Erik van Blokland wrote (on OpenFontLibrary):
>
> The webotf proposal does not state anything about replacing otf / ttf 
> linking. 
OK, I thought that was an significant issue. 

In fact both EOTL and webOTF proponents are happy that TTF and OTF remain as viable formats for linking with @font-face as they are in current W3C recommendations, and that the format is selected on its merits (like, publisher A will license in format Y or type-designer B thinks the licence expression is better in format Z) alone.

Am I catching up now?

Thanks for your forbearance,
Ben


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