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Re: Next step?

From: Laurence Penney <lorp@lorp.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:25:08 +0100
Cc: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Message-Id: <9096BED1-39BB-4A6D-AAB0-E4B619667C6F@lorp.org>
To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Thanks for this excellent summary, Tab.

Could someone point me to the latest spec (on this list?) for CWT? I'd  
like to check if the OTF "flavour" of CWT[1] has been ruled  
inadmissible in view of CWT's claimed merit of "great compat".

If it isn't forbidden, why isn't it?

- L

[1] unsupported by any notable user agent, as far as I know

On 22 Oct 2009, at 16:45, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Summary time!  SVG Fonts should be supported on their own merits, but
> really aren't a believable general solution to fonts on the web.  TTF
> would be nice, but the expected time-to-usefulness is the highest of
> all of them, because we have no idea when or if MS will ever support
> them in IE.  CWT has great compat and will be usable the fastest, all
> things being equal, but WOFF has the advantage of some very attractive
> compression .
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