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Re: Next step?

From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:54:39 +0200
Message-ID: <923706444.20091022225439@w3.org>
To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
CC: Tal Leming <tal@typesupply.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Thursday, October 22, 2009, 10:43:37 PM, Sylvain wrote:

>> From: Tal Leming [mailto:tal@typesupply.com]
>> 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.

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

Agreed (and we saw a good, although not necessarily complete, list posted earlier by Tal).

Are there known things missing from that list?


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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