[WOFF] credits and credit Elements

Hi, Folks-

Maybe this is premature, but I just finished reviewing the WOFF spec 
[1], and I had a couple thoughts, which I will split into separate emails.

Regarding APPENDIX A: Extended Metadata Specification

This is honestly pretty minor, but it doesn't seem to me that you need a 
<credits> container element, in the same way that <description>, 
<license>, <copyright>, and <trademark> are useful.  Each <credit> 
element could stand on its own.  But I suspect it's worth the slight 
filesize increase to have things nice and tidy.

A more important suggestion is that you should remove @name and use the 
child text content as the name value.  This would allow people to use, 
say, O'Malley as a value without ever worrying about escaping the quote. 
  It's exactly the same length, so there's nothing to lose:

   <credit>Font Designer</credit>
   <credit name='Font Designer'/>

[1] http://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/woff/woff-2009-10-23.html

Regards-
-Doug Schepers
W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs

Received on Saturday, 24 October 2009 03:44:57 UTC