RE: Next step?

> From: Tal Leming [mailto:tal@typesupply.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:35 AM

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> To be clear, I am not endorsing CWT and I am not speaking as a co-
> author of the WOFF specification. I am speaking as someone who works
> with a number of foundries to produce fonts and as someone who
> actually experimented with EOTL. Font makers already have enough
> undefined expectations and bugs to guess about and work around. I
> quite strongly do not want to have more of these. It's bad for
> everyone involved -- the OS/app makers, the font makers and, most
> importantly, the users.

Yes, a formal CWT spec must define what a font generator (font vendor, tool)
must do in order to generate a font file that will work in IE and any browser
that implements the spec.