On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > >> >> >> [R]estricting ourselves to *only* free fonts on the web *is* a viable >> fallback position that would make us web designers happy, and could be >> implemented without controversy. >> > > No it would not, Tab. It might make you happy; it might > make Dave Crossland happy; but it would not make /all/ > web designers happy by any means, so unless you meant by > "/we/ font designers" the subset of all font designers > that would be happy to use only free fonts, then I am > afraid that your assertion is demonstrably incorrect. > No, I mean it quite literally. Our level of happiness would be strictly increased by allowing only free font linking, because right now we have *no* font linking. We would be happy with this. We would by *happier* with commercial fonts as well, but *any* font-linking is an improvement that would make our lives better. If you have no cake, then a bite of cake makes you happy (if you prefer relative terms, "happier than before"). A whole slice would be better, but that bite is still better than no cake at all. ~TJ
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