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Re: Next step?

From: Chris Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:57:07 +0600
Message-ID: <4AE27B13.8050300@gmx.net>
To: robert@ocallahan.org
CC: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Robert O'Callahan wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com 
> <mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com>> wrote:

>     I don't see any reason to stand against CWT, honestly.

> There is one, the point about deployability that I keep bringing up. I 
> guess I'll bring it up again:
> 
> 1) An EOT-Classic font with a rootstring is not a conforming CWT font, 
> per the latest CWT draft. (Personally I and Sylvain think the draft 
> could be changed to allow this, but other people, including Chris Lilley 
> apparently, don't want to do this.)

EOT Classic fonts don't "claim" to be conforming CWT / EOT lite fonts.

> 2) Most font licenses will require authors to apply some kind of 
> same-origin restriction

Folks from Monotype, Ascender and others have expressed support for CWT 
/ EOT lite ~ between them they represent a large percent of commercial 
fonts.

> 3) Given (1), the only way for authors to implement that restriction for 
> IE users will be to implement Referer checking

- C
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