- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:36:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
- cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "www-font@w3.org" <www-font@w3.org>
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote: > > I don't see how implementing what Sylvain has proposed would affect the > features of the test. If the goal of ACID3 is to test @font-face > functionality, then using TTF data format (that is optional to be > supported by the browsers) cannot be considered a valid test - browsers > may fail just because they do not support this *optional* format even > though they are fully compliant with the CSS spec. The goal of the test is to test TTF functionality as well. TTF is a standard format, just like WOFF may one day be. Note that @font-face is just as optional as TTF or WOFF support, or, indeed, CSS support, or HTML support. Browser vendors pick what they want to implement. No technology can be mandated; it's a free market. All we can do is check that once you try to support a technology, you actually do so in a manner that is consistent with that technology's specification. You cannot mandate that WOFF be implemented. The market decides that. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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